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Perhaps more apt to Chew: whose America(na)?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDriving opener \"\u003cem\u003eDying On Borrowed Time\u003c\/em\u003e\" seems inspired by both Ajahn Chah’s \"In the Dead of Night...\" and a mysterious guest; hot-wired hybrid of post-Traffic-era \u003cem\u003eDave Mason\u003c\/em\u003e, ’70s Tulsa sound, 12-string Eastern melodies, and propulsive bass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Faulkernian menace of \"\u003cem\u003eThe Peddler’s Cart\u003c\/em\u003e\" drags patricidal-Gothic through fallow cotton fields; Daly’s mandolin cutting peals of \u003cem\u003eBill Monroe\u003c\/em\u003e-like energy; murder-ballad revenge via \u003cem\u003eFairport Convention\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWaylon\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Bad Seeds\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInvoked from the same greasy-yet-ethereal grimoire of \u003cem\u003eLeon Russell\u003c\/em\u003e piano magick (that Chew regularly casts), \"\u003cem\u003eShe’s a Seer\u003c\/em\u003e\" recalls Russell’s work with \u003cem\u003eDelaney and Bonnie\u003c\/em\u003e; snatches of 1975-era Zeppelin in Daly’s pedal steel-like swells and stinging outro solo; Brown’s bass splits \u003cem\u003eThe Meters\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eT. 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