Idyl: Elements of the Field (5/8/12)
“Rio da Duvida”
[audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Idyl_Rio_da_Duvida.mp3|titles=Idyl: “Rio da Duvida”]Thirty years ago, an artist like Alex Dupree may not have gotten past his debut album, a record brimming with both respect for the folk tradition and an insatiable need for experimentation, recorded with a group of misfits from Austin, Texas, who called themselves the Trapdoor Band. He may not have gotten past his second record or his third or the EP that came out between them, music that earned Dupree comparisons to Bob Dylan, at least by the few folks listening. Fortunately, times have changed, and artists like Dupree don’t need to be ratified by the critics’ vanguard to keep making music.