All 3 are Nashville-based

How do you like that Tristen record?
I really enjoy her last one and she was great when I saw her opening for Justin Townes Earle.

Lou Reed - Berlin
Townes Van Zandt - s/t
Bill Callahan - Dream River
Songs: Ohia - Hecla & Griper (15th Anniversary Ed.)
Califone - Stitches
Loftus - s/t
Parquet Courts - Tally All the Things That You Broke/American Specialties
Royal Trux - Singles, Live, Unreleased

I dig it. I love her voice. It has poppy synthy production (although not glossy). I recommend if you dig that kind of thing

So I'm officially lame as fuck. I skipped QOTSA w/ Savages and Fuzz last night in Nashville. Vampire Weekend was playing too, but I'm not upset about missing that one.

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Savages suck so you shouldn't feel too bad.

QOTSA would have been fun, though.

She Keeps Bees - Dig On
(RIYL: more stomp-blues sounding mid-career Cat Power w/ less mental anguish)

You still go to more show than just about anyone I'm friends with. That said, QOTSA were awesome at Music Midtown.

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Yuck - Glow and Behold

So many reviews are hung up on name checking and spotting the influence with this band. They can't get past it. I dig the hell out of this and it makes me long for those halcyon days of 1991. In the best way possible.

I really like the first album, but I tend to get hung up on playing "spot the influences" too. It does distract me from the songs, themselves and that makes me feel like I don't really need to get anything else from the band. Unless... is it a little less apparent on this album? Sounds not, by what you said.
Again: I like them, I just find the obvious sound-copping a bit distracting. I'll listen again today, though and try to get past it. I do enjoy the listen.