Tyler Key, Hibbs Family Band

From the venue:

“There’s a distinctively blue collar tone to the record, taking on the age-old themes of living and ageing in a land full of promise that never quite seems to yield. ‘Run of the mill old milltown blues,’ Key sings on ‘Hills Like White Elephants’, going a long way to explain the record as a whole. Identity too, or perhaps the lack of it, forms an important thread. “You can lay my bones in Macedonia ground, or bury me by Indian Creek’ goes the brooding shuffle of ‘No Difference Macedonia’. “It don’t make no difference to me’ Times are changing and history counts for little, let alone the romanticized version of it (moonshine has been replaced by Ambien and Xanax, by trucker’s speed).” –Jon Doyle