Beefheart & McQuinn’s Midtown Downtime arrived earlier this year as a ten-song distillation of folk-rock’s softer, more unhurried pleasures. Think. close harmonies, crisp arrangements, and an easygoing, J.J. Cale-like sway. For their Lagniappe Session, William Murray and Winter McQuinn turn to three favorites from their record collections: Danny O’Keefe’s “The Road,” Mark Fry’s “Song For Wilde,” and Heron’s “Lord & Master.” Spanning road-worn singer-songwriter fare and the pastoral reaches of British folk, the selections share the qualities that animate the duo’s own work.
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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Winter McQuinn
Fittingly, I happened upon Winter McQuinn and his associated Melbourne scene right around the time I was visiting Australia in 2023 and have kept rapt attention since. McQuinn’s third album Where Are We Now? is set to drop later this month, via the Sydney based Third Eye Stimuli Records, and with it his first Lagniappe Session. Here, McQuinn works up a full band arrangement of the autumnal 2017 Anna St. Louis chestnut “Fire,” before digging into Charles Brown’s “On The Corner” and Roger Miller’s 1973 adventure in animation courtesy of Robin Hood’s “Oo-De-Lally.”