This special record release show is for Drawnigh, Ethan Daniel Davidson’s newest full-length which finds the otherworldly and well-traveled folk troubadour immersed in Detroit’s fertile music scene, with some of the best musicians in town backing him up on the thing. The dude subtly embraces dozens of twentieth century styles, like some sort of one-person Calexico.
Metro Times music editor Mike McGonigal has written about music since 1984, when he started the fanzine Chemical Imbalance at age sixteen with money saved from mowing lawns in Florida. He's since written for Spin, Pitchfork, the Village VOICE and Artforum. He's been a museum guard, a financial reporter, a bicycle...