"In part, the band's work sounds fresh because of its stylistic flexibility. Swing rhythm, jazz improvisation and blues phrase-making converge in almost everything it plays, but never in the same proportions. Moreoever, when Paterson plays pedal-steel guitar, he evokes specific country-music idioms; when he plays electric, he taps a more urban musical vocabulary. Ultimately, though, Paterson and the Modern Sounds draw from uncounted genres in...

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