One has to wonder; what is a twenty-something, jazz trumpet-playing, Wes Anderson movie-loving, ex-Certified Nursing Assistant who literally lives backstage in one of America’s longest-running theaters doing writing an album that would’ve sounded more at home in 1970’s Texas?
Fortunately, Bart Budwig is a man who would rather ask good questions than give bad answers. In the same way that Willie and Waylon were rebelling against ‘the machine,’ the above begins to make sense when considering the Oregonian songwriter’s authenticity as a fellow outlaw.
Budwig's new full-length, The Moon and Other Things, was recorded to four-track reel-to-reel in the historic OK Theatre in Enterprise, Oregon.