Pinetop Seven - Beneath Confederate Lake (2006)

Chicago's Pinetop Seven use country and folk music as a palette for mixing a variety of styles, including jazz, rock, and world music. BENEATH CONFEDERATE LAKE, the band's sixth release, is a collection of previously unavailable odds and sods scattered across the group's entire career, including recordings made in 2005, selections from a score for the film "Numinmata," and tracks from the band's earliest incarnations. Remarkably, these disparate tracks hold together nicely, ably representing Pinetop Seven's appealing brand of experimental Americana--one that hearkens to the past while still sounding very much of its time.