The back roads of American music are filled with mavericks who are as wilfully prolific as they are generally obscure.
To the likes of Howe Gelb, Robert Pollard and Will Oldham, now add the name of James Jackson Toth.
Across a decade of collaborations, proper albums and self-released cassettes and CD-Rs, Toth has been understandably difficult to pin down. But the Wooden Wand band that began to coalesce around him on last year's terrific Briarwood finds further structure here.
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