Round Up Blues
If, as we’re promised, “Gone, Long Gone” is the first installment of Dawson’s three-album post-covid purge, you shouldn’t take your eyes off his output this year. Here, whether you alight on the instinctive roll of King Bennie Had His Shit Together or the sinister swoon of 6 Skeletons In A Car, this is American roots with dirt under its fingernails.