Players listen to each other and resist following the leader. They see what they can do when they join forces. If I do this and you do that, what does it sound like together? And they embrace their regionality – rather than being invested in pretending at the universal, this is Alabama improvised music, proud and plentiful.

The three musicians passed noisy little ideas around like a tray of bbq at a cookout.

There is an approach to folk music that adopts a different concept of traditional. Let’s agree that traditional means that it comes from a collective past of some sort. But this is not the past as collected by James Francis Child or Bela Bartok. This isn’t a murder ballad or a transmuted blues lyric. This approach digs at a root arguably deeper than that, a communal past in the psyche, deep in the subconscious, a surreal or pataphysical soundscape.