The Black Dirt Sessions

Downcast roots rockers led by John McCauley return with album number three.

Most of the music on Deer Tick’s third album, The Black Dirt Sessions, was recorded back in 2008, during the sessions for the rollicking Born On Flag Day, but it’d be a mistake to think of these songs as leftovers. Flag Day saw Deer Tick singer-songwriter John McCauley capitalizing on the buzz from the band’s first…

Intimations of mortality

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