Tight Knit

Just in case there was any lingering confusion, Andy Cabic and his cohorts in Vetiver did an excellent job in 2008 of further outlining their overall musical objectives. On their covers album Thing of the Past and the supplemental EP More of the Past, Vetiver paid faithful homage to a very specific brand of dazed Americana, covering songs by Townes V an Zandt, Norman Greenbaum, and Michael Hurley, as well reviving several long-lost obscurities by such lesser-known songwriters as Garland Jeffreys and Elyse Weinberg. All of the source material for these covers can be roughly dated to 1969-73 time period, and throughout their performances Vetiver showed a virtually effortless affinity for the playing and production styles of that era's folk-rock and cosmic country.