While writing his latest solo effort Fables in a Foreign Land, available May 20th on Fat Possum Records, John Doe tapped into our current moment by looking back, setting the loose-concept album in the 1890s, following an unnamed cowboy traversing the plains of the western United States at the tail end of westward expansion. Though he had no idea what lay ahead when he first conceived of the project, the themes of loss and desolation that weave their way through the tales sung, told, strummed and drummed up by Doe and collaborators Kevin Smith (a member of Willie Nelson’s band) and Conrad Choucroun, alongside a guests like Shirley Manson of Garbage, and his longtime collaborator Excene Cervenka of X, are gnawingly prescient. “I started dreaming this up in probably 2019 and it ...
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