In winter 2015 I spent a month in Colorado, playing nights at a bar in a big quasi country band. In the mornings I quietly worked on new songs, borrowed my friend Jackson’s nylon guitar and recorded some of them. Here are three, presented as works in progress. Consider it a lo-fi preview of things to come.

Opener ‘Walking The Line’ gives you a good idea of what the EP is all about, with its gentle but intricate finger-picked guitar supporting Moss’s folk tale.

“Brush the fog from my eyes to reveal something clean
Look in through an open window to the nearly unseen.
But oh the lightness of the morning turns to eve
and stars go funnelling from you”

‘Postman’ is a moody folk tale in the vain of the classics, with a tough-luck wanderer parting with hopes and worries and wisdoms which could only be learned through time on the road. “Postman in the grey and blue,” he sings. “can I sleep among the bags while you drive? I’ll take the wheel after a time”. Closer ‘Vertebrae’ emerges from a swirl of instrumentation, what at first seems a desolate loneliness warming into a sentimental glow as Moss’s vocals appear, resulting in something akin to Small Sur.

If unpretentious, homespun folk music is your thing, just nylon-stringed guitar and intimate vocals, then this is the EP for you. You can buy Pitkin Country Morning now the Sam Moss Bandcamp page.

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