Claude says:Gregory Alan Isakov grew up in Philadelphia after his family left South Africa in 1986, then moved to Colorado to study horticulture — he still gardens alongside his music career, which includes touring with Kelly Joe Phelps and recording with the Colorado Symphony. This 2007 self-release is hushed folk-rock built on fingerpicked guitar and banjo, spare and patient, like something overheard in a dim kitchen at 2 a.m. You got serious about it in mid-2022, fifteen years after it came out, and "The Stable Song" has been the keeper ever since.