Iowa Dream, out Nov. 15, offers to peel back another layer of Arthur Russell's idiosyncratic sense of sound. A newly released single from the record is extremely promising.
Singer and songwriter Kelsey Waldon has known what she wanted to do since middle school. And she's known what she wanted to sound like too: steadfastly rural and progressive.
The new Ode to Joy couldn't sound less like the ambitious clatter of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot — but Jeff Tweedy and crew sound at home in its skeletal frame, driven by something cozier than ambition.