Scout Sessions:
The Official Soundtrack of First Friday with the Arts

There ain't nothing wrong with sitting on a porch singing simple songs. We went back out to Rusted Route Farms and recorded a few with Evan Webb and Adam Hellman. This one's called Dog.

If you find yourself under a train trestle with Parker Bond, just shut up and listen. We learned that and a whole pocketful of his grandpa's home-spun idioms at Tunnel Hill State Park in Johnson County, Illinois. We may never know how many flapjacks it takes to shingle a dog house, but we doubt it has anything to do with the price of eggs overseas.

Eager, young and starry-eyed. That's Leight July. When the Paducah, Kentucky one-woman band rolled into Cape Girardeau we had to have her lay down a version of her namesake, a barn burner from the great Shakey Graves. This is Late July. By Leight July.