TIN ROOF ECHO, “There’s A Town”

Tin Roof Echo’s “There’s A Town” feels like it’s from a different time. Recorded directly to vinyl at Third Man Records’ vintage Voice-o-Graph recording booth, the ghosts haunting the pops and scrapes serve a song like this, which taps into the rich tradition of narrative folk songs. As with the best of the genre, the acoustic strums and casual hammer-on runs never compete with the pared-down lyrics and rustic vocals, and moments like the closing “So it goes, so it goes/Just so we know, you’re always home” land with the confidence of a road-tested troubadour.