It was a day that started crisply enough to necessitate a sweatshirt through the noon hour, before heating up sufficiently.

It was a day that ended crisply, with a bevy of moon glow riding through the indigo blackness.

Theyll be a heavy dew in the morning, but the chilliness that will flow through the overnight will be polite enough, the skies clear enough, that it will be as pleasant as it could ever really be as long as you bring out some kind of matting to soften the hard ground.

They write into their songs people dealing with convenient love, which is never easy to deal with, but it can be exactly what they want some days.

It can never be taken as lightly as one of these passing days of autumnal temperatures and fading summer light.

These are the days that require no filter or context, just as little breaking as possible, so there can be minimal sidetracking.

Theres sorrow abounding, but its all manageable and it puts everything into a tidy perspective.

Its been eighteen years since Holland and Parton first joined forces, and with Wildflower Blues, they begin a new chapter in their ever-evolving creative relationship.

On the albums ten tracks, they weave together influences spanning jazz, blues, country, folk, rock, experimental, and the great wide history of American song, into their own kind of soul music.

Wildflower Blues features mostly original tracks written by Holland and Parton, as well as reimagined versions of songs by Bob Dylan, Michael Hurley, and Townes Van Zandt.

Despite this sonic vastness, there is a deep intimacy running through everything the pair creates.

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