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Dance music made with a slide guitar should not work, and for most people who try it does not — the blues part ends up decorative and the groove ends up generic. This project is the exception that a certain touring crowd organized their year around: filthy low end, actual guitar playing on top, sets that run long and build slowly rather than resetting every four minutes. The audience overlaps heavily with the jam-band circuit and brings that circuit's habits, which means people who travel to multiple dates and know one another by first name. A high desert saloon on a Sunday is an unusually good container for it; the dancing starts earlier than it would in a city club because nobody drove ninety minutes to stand still. Music at 9:00 PM in Pioneertown. Crowds like this one tend to compare notes on where everybody is headed next, and that conversation is worth being in.