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AMERICANA
Album of the month
Coleslaw and Goddard: echoes of Gram and Emmylou
TOBACCO CITY
Horses SCISSOR TAIL
9/10
Elevated cosmic country from the suburban Midwest
LEXI GODDARD and Chris Coleslaw first met while working at the same café in Chicago, soon uniting to perform covers of Neil Young and, in time, writing their own songs as Tobacco City. Debut EP “LSD” arrived in 2018, followed by 2021’s full-length Tobacco City, USA, an album that suggested their spiritual locus lay at some movable point between ’60s Bakersfield and the bleached expanse of the American Southwest. Echoes of Gram and Emmylou shaped their harmonies, while a supporting cast conjured up the kind of glazed psychedelic country so beloved of early Flying Burritos.