Sweet Undertow Band

Sweet Undertow’s Americana blues flecked with folk, and in places conjuring Johnny Cash, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Tom Waits, delve deep into the human condition through metaphor and memory yet are equally just a hella good time. “There’s songs about love, lust, death, lonesomeness, and anger,” says Eddy. “I try to create moods and paint with lyrics, trying to evoke images in peoples’ minds. But also, y’know, shake their asses.”

Road-tested, crowd-approved

The resulting record embraces multiple enduring American genres with an endearing honesty stripped raw by what Eddy calls “years of wildness,” both literal – stalked by a leopard in the Himalayas, lost in the Wyoming Rockies – and metaphorical, with all the loves, lives, and myriad human interactions along the way. The title Skeletone Machine marvels at how, even as we’ve become tethered to soulless devices, music and intangible mortal magic somehow still seeps out. (“Where does the machine end, and where do I begin again?” implores the title track).