The Constant Sorrow Orchestra

Allen Lowe writes: "America: The Rough Cut is my statement not only on American music and American song, but also my commentary on the way American musicians of all styles handle that old-time music and those old song forms . . . The old things - not just the blues, but gospel music and pre-blues shouts and language, plus hillbilly/minstrel song and medicine show irony - reflect a disinterest in the polite trappings of (primarily but not only white) society, an implicit rejection of basic tonal,…

Allen Lowe writes: "In the Dark is a commemoration (sic) of the worst time of my life - a period during which, having been operated on to remove a cancerous tumor in my sinus, I slept for only brief periods of time. Sometimes I made it as long as two hours continuously, but most often I dozed off for 20 minutes, 30 minutes, maybe an hour - encamped as I was on my couch, trying not to wake my wife as I wandered in the dark contemplating the long night ahead. Sometimes I turned the television set …