The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll

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Highly celebrated as one of his landmark early works, 'The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll' is a raw, anxieties-tinged, and highly unpolished lo-fi album. Famous for being publicly praised by John Peel, who played the album in its entirety on BBC Radio, the self-produced record captures a stark, midwestern bedroom-folk reality. The songs combine weeping, out-of-tune guitar scrapes and dry vocal deliveries, securing his place as a pioneer of the American indie-folk underground.