Artist: The lonesome southern comfort company
Release: The big hunt
Released: 2013
Label: On The Camper records
Catalog#:OR 024
Format: FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue
Country: USA
Style: americana,folk

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1	 When He's Down	4:47	
2	 64 Warwick Way	8:02	
3	 Mary Anne	2:56	
4	 The Big Hunt	5:37	
5	 Retreat	2:20	
6	 That 2AM Call	3:36	
7	 CT Scan	5:00	
8	 Wall Street's Foreign Legion	2:59	
9	 Rent Song	4:26




Over the course of three albums the Lonesome Southern Comfort Company has emerged as a distinct and persuasive voice in the Americana scene, albeit a voice emanating from the borders of Switzerland and Italy. They’ve plotted a somewhat enigmatic course to the heart of a musical genre, built on a minimalism of nagging riffs that hook and snare the attention, while paradoxically there’s an emotive complexity and brooding intensity in some of the layered vocal and instrumental textures. It’s perhaps another contradiction to say that The Big Hunt sounds instantly familiar, yet like nothing else you will hear this year. Beyond doubt, it’s also a boldly brilliant and utterly captivating record that wears its dark and veiled mysteries well.

Part of their enigmatic approach is that all of the CDs, bar the first that simply and starkly bears Lonesome Southern Comfort Company, black on white, don’t have the band’s name and title on the front artwork. Inside the information is minimal too, simply listing the protagonists by their Christian names, John, Duke, Boris and Abraham.

The John is actually John Robianni and Lonesome Southern Comfort Company was actually his solo debut back in 2006, taking shape as a band for the follow up, Charles The Bold. It’s the new release The Big Hunt,.....