Red McAdam

• Country

On Comic Western Gothic, Red McAdam’s playful outsider country music shines; he presents an inventive vision of what the genre can be. A consummate road dog, he brings to this sophomore album the frenetic, dynamic, and occasionally delirious performances he spent years honing in dives, dancehalls, and theaters. In Red’s rich, risky blend of traditional honkytonk, folk and western swing, listeners will recognize the Lone Star eccentricities of Terry Allen and Guy Clark, forlorn folk sensibilities of Elizabeth Cotton and Karen Dalton, and the driving genre-bending of The Band and Little Feat.