Lawson's songs evoke a poignant melancholy. They sound like a cry to a star-filled sky, a dreamer's diary, the words of the last romantic.

They are Americana songs with twang and grit and that high lonesome sound, but the lyrics are less confined to Southern fables than many artists under the country banner. They access certain cosmic and universal threads of consciousness in a dreamy poetic haz

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