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WHEN spoke to Israel Nash in December 2020, he was about to release a new album called , recorded during that year’s Covid lockdown. was the fourth album Nash had made at his Dripping Springs studio in the Texas Hill Country, after moving from New York in 2011, and it added ’70s funk and soul traces to the (2013), (2015) and the ecstatic (2018). Almost in passing, Nash mentioned that he’d also had two other albums on the go during his enforced isolation. One was a complete remake of The Byrds’ . The other was what he described as an album of the kind of “heartland American rock” he grew up listening to – Springsteen, Tom Petty, Bob Seger and the like. That record was presumably .
