Reed here covers Merle Haggard. Not exactly what you might expect from the blue-eyed soul singer, who I understand to be from Boston (graduated Brookline High in 2002) – but it is a wonderful set of versions.

Liner notes by his dad, Howard Husock, pointing out that country music actually “grabbed ‘E’ first.”

Produced by Reed, recorded at Hive Mind in Brooklyn, with a band including Michael Montgomery, Noah Rubin, Colin Brown, Morgan Price, Michael Buckley, Nadav Nirenberg, and Billy Aukstik.

My copy via Waterloo Records in Austin TX