Taste Test: D.H. Scott takes stark snapshot with ‘The Ballad of Casey Todd’
Folk bender recalls one especially vital counter with his new wandering story-song.
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People come into our life randomly, and they leave randomly. Some carry a profound imprint upon us, while still others are fleeting glimpses into other lives and times, buried beneath journeys we may never fully know. New Mexico folk bender D.H. Scott can’t seem to get one collection of encounters off his mind. With his new story-song “The Ballad of Casey Todd,” in which he paints a lonesome, barbed ode to his wayward life and one particular character who has haunted him over the years, Scott rumbles across the countryside as free and airy as his acoustic guitar. “I left my wife and moved to Denver / Trying to find me a home, I fell and faltered towards California / Where the days roll by nice and slow,” he unspools the narrative with a gently rippling force, the graininess of his voice tapping into his guttural instincts. He exposes raw nerve and heart, beckoning us into his sphere of the world for an impassioned message.
“The Ballad of Casey Todd” samples Scott’s new album, My Body Longed for the Summer, out July 20.
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