Silver Dollars

Silver Dollars, Axton Kincaid's second Free Dirt Records release, updates the traditional bent of their debut, Songs from the Pine Room, with songs inspired by early '70s country-rock (The Saddest Story), Dolly-and-Porter style duets (Spend Some Time with Me), and the classic Nashville Sound-albeit with an underlying layer of noisy, distorted guitar (Walking Papers). With guest musicians on fiddle, pedal steel, and piano, the record features some of the brightest stars in the Portland and San Francisco country and indie rock scenes, including Camilla Lincoln (the Whoreshoes), Katy Rexford (Burning Embers, Boz Scaggs), and Mac Martine (John Murry and Bob Frank).