Beau Bow de Lune is the recent project from Val McCallum (featured as a solo artist elsewhere on this site), and his partners Bow Thayer and Greg Wells. These are ten absolutely timeless songs, created by barely three people, during a pandemic that kept them geographically separate.
And yet they come together with the same relaxed and natural vibe that you might associate with The Band during their Big Pink/Basement Tapes phase, but with modern clarity, thanks largely to Greg Wells’ skillful engineering and production (and drumming!). This is top-shelf songwriting across many styles, and of course, Val’s superb playing of anything with strings on it elevates this album to classic status.
Do not miss this one. For fans of Americana, these songs are keepers.