Ledford writes like he’s thrown his sack onto a fair number passenger cars. His land is the “Old Weird America” Griel Marcus wrote so emotively about. Ledford stories seldom end with a hero on the proverbial mountaintop. His narratives are typically told by the losers, those close to the edge, in the grandest sense. This latest record puts him in front of a microphone, sans accompaniment, where he pours out live-sounding interpretations of his own music, which while not your Daddy’s folk, has... More>>>
In February 2004, with Bob
Rupe on board as co-producer and engineer
and some of Richmond\'s finest musicians, Ledford began recording his
debut solo album entitled REVERIE. The studio was Bob's Victorian era
home. The sessions were loose and live, recorded without headphones,
with little isolation or other studio trappings. "Heck, we had the
windows open on one unusually hot afternoon. You could hear dogs
barking on the tracks." From the civil war era "Belle Isle" to a
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