Time for a music break. I’ve always been a fan of the Silos, but recently I’ve been delighted to find that their earliest recordings are now available again on CD. The mid-80s EP “About Her Steps” was (I think) their first commercial recording, or at least my first introduction to them, and it now forms the cornerstone of “Ask the Dust,” which also collects other early work by the band and its leader, Walter Salas-Humara. Also newly available on CD is the album “Cuba.” The Silos have never sold a lot of records, but their style of domestic folk-rock — “About Her Steps” begins with a description of cleaning up a house and “Cuba” is shot through with the love and pain of marriage — has prodigious staying power. The Silos sprang out of the same scene as (and once shared some members with) another little-known but much-loved band, the Vulgar Boatmen. (Read Charlie Taylor’s great paean to them here.) Today’s practitioners of “alt-country” are mining a similar vein but without quite the same spirit or simplicity. Music like this is worth having a reunion with.
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