Steve Gunn’s Way Out Weather, from 2014 was not only a career highlight for the artist himself, who had formerly travelled most often in more experimental and more improvisatory musical communities, but it was also an important milestone in the story of contemporary independent music of the rock and roll genre.
Nathan Bowles is a multi-instrumentalist musician and teacher living in Durham, North Carolina. His work, both as a solo artist and an ensemble player, explores the rugged country between the poles of Appalachian old-time traditions and ecstatic, minimalist drone.