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A Steel Driving Man: Dragland’s “The Roadmaster”

Guitarist supreme Adam Dragland’s new EP The Roadmasterwas a personally jarring experience. As a listener who first experienced Dragland’s fretwork on the crunching thunder stomp of Gold Minor (a band that falls somewhere between the showy bombast of Zep and the apocalyptic clang of early Pearl Jam), I was initially taken aback by the lack of tectonic-plate-shifting grooves and smoldering solos…