Thanks, I had to look it up. It makes sense in that light but it's still kind of off putting for some reason, especially when he puts on the whole colonial outfit. Like he has to bail out from his gig to attend a rendezvous event or something. Fur trapper by day, shred guitarist by night.
Yeah it feeds into the "no one knows what to make music about anymore" trend. I'm not sure it's conceptually any weirder than making music about something that happened at the Dockery Plantation 5 generations ago, but I agree it's sort of off-putting.
At around 3:23 that's pretty cool what he does! Thanks for sharing.
Saw him in June of 2019 at the Iridium in NYC!
Awesome gig. I was sitting close enough to switch his pedalboard. His playing was out of this world and he was just starting to do those songs singing them with the guitar. Even my wife, who's not much into that style of music, agreed it was an awesome evening.