American Goldwing by Blitzen Trapper

American Goldwing, Blitzen Trapper's sixth studio album, came out of Portland on Sub Pop on September 13, 2011, and it closed the book on the band's time with the label that had backed them since their 2008 breakout, Furr. Coming after Destroyer of the Void, it kept the acclaim rolling.

This is alternative country with the amps nudged up and the dust still on its boots. Rolling Stone heard Dylan-style mysticism, spindly acoustic jams in the Grateful Dead mold, a bag of 1970s rock moves and a cast of trigger-happy drifters out on the high plains, which is about as good a map as you'll find. On the charts it did best with the folk crowd, reaching number four on Billboard's Folk Albums chart. VII followed, on a new label.

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