spectral light & moonshine firefly snakeoil jamboree Burning Mills (CD, £13.50)

Brainchild of Pennsylvania based psych-folk alchemist Timothy Renner (STONEBREATH, MOURNING CLOCK, BEATHSTONE). Rooted in old-time Appalachian music and often played on 19th century instruments. Graveyard blues, murder-ballads, ghost songs and old hymns. A bonjo sparkling in the dark, voices waeving strange harmonies with reedy drones of the harmonium hangng like mist in the air. File under 'Old Weird America'.