Iris
2005
Stereo Fields
About This Album
It takes guts to name your band after the central character from the Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." However, despite some surface similarities to the Band's faux-Southern Americana obsessions, Virgil Cane has more in common with contemporaries like Wilco and Beachwood Sparks: country-rock is a jumping-off point, not the finish line. Singer-guitarist Butch Boswell is clearly familiar not only with the Band and the Eagles, but also the rootsier side of the '80s Paisley Underground scene (the Long Ryders, Green on Red, late-era Dream Syndicate), because even the twangiest songs here are overlaid with gently fuzzed guitars, and every few songs comes a neo-psych raveup like the last couple of minutes of the hazy "I Get Nothing" or the narcotic swoon of the Yo La Tengo-like closer, "Your World." Laid-back without being somnambulant, Stereo Fields is a low-key but thoroughly enjoyable stroll through the points at which country-rock and psychedelia coincide. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
Track List (try tracks 1,2,4,5,6,9 and 10)

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