Flatbed buggy

"Royston grew up in Denver but often visited his father in Texas. Some of his most enduring childhood memories are tied to the "dusty" backcountry. Flatbed Buggy translates those memories into bittersweet melodies and alluring country rhythms, and entrusts them to a chamber-jazz quintet of unusual instrumentation. The slightly nasal strains of Hank Roberts' cello and the reedy sighs of Gary Versace's accordion are central to this album's down-home ambience, and also to its harmonic richness. The other players are John Ellis, mostly on bass clarinet, and Joe Martin on bass. The haunting ensemble sonorities are somehow both strange and familiar, as if they already exist, not only in Royston's subconscious but in ours".

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