Loren Connors, As Roses Bow: Collected Airs 1992-2002 (Family Vineyard)

Just back from my festive galumph around the country, and I’ve already resumed position at my desk, staring at my computer like it is the most obscenely advanced piece of technology I’ve come across in my life.  I feel like one of the villagers in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years Of Solitude who has just been shown a magnet or a block of ice for the first time.  What is this?  It does what?  Can I give you some of these gourds in exchange for it?  Anyway, perhaps as a result of my pre-xmas list-building frenzy of over-consumption, on my travels I really didn’t listen to a great deal of music.  Apart from this.  Although its 43 tracks felt like more than enough.