Jerry DeCicca looks back on the making of Ed Askew’s 2013 late-period masterpiece For the World — a record assembled through borrowed rooms, broke musicians, chance encounters, and the quiet force of Askew’s songs themselves. What began in a sweltering West Harlem warehouse with Jay Pluck, Tyler Evans, and engineer Keith Hanlon gradually expanded through contributions from Mary Lattimore, Sharon Van Etten, and Marc Ribot, all orbiting Askew’s singular presence. DeCicca’s recollection captures an artist who had moved far beyond the “psych-folk” tag attached to his ESP-Disk years . . .
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