The Coloradas - Big Empty (2013)

It often sounds like the blues. It sometimes sounds like country music, back when country music sounded like itself. There are moments of mountain bluegrass, dark folk, and old time. The songs are written and earnestly delivered, re-interpreted as folk music, complete with fingerpicked guitars, clawhammer banjo, and soulful mandolin. There's a pentecostal junkyard man, a soldier with a drinking problem, and a handful of first-person narratives.