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Al Scorch & The Country Soul Ensemble s Tired Ghostly Town is a highly spirited recording that touches on the agile musicianship of country/bluegrass greats like Flatt & Scruggs and Bill Monroe while also incorporating the storytelling of such great artists as Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. The record opens with the frenzied Board Up The Windows, whose venomous vocal delivery and breakneck pace bring to mind the Pogues at their earliest, rawest stage. Overall the arrangements and music are very stripped down, allowing the vocals and stories to take the foreground, though lovely flourishes of accordion, organ, trumpet, violin, stand-up bass, and trumpet add deeply effective and ancient-sounding color to the tunes.