by Simon Glickman
The audience assembled at The Village on 8/17 had been invited to “An Exclusive Music Experience of Southern Gothic.” What we got, when we first put on our wireless headphones, was a bewildering array of random video on giant screens. The clips toggled restlessly between the real horrors of our time and the trivialities intended to distract us from them. Then all the screens settled into a cinematic landscape, somewhere in a possibly mythical American South, and the music began.
That music, from the now wildly buzzing album Southern Gothic by Mercury Nashville’s Tyminski (due 10/20), is not simple to describe. Its creator, Dan Tyminski, is best known as the singing voice of George Clooney in O Brother, Where Art Thou, a longtime member of Alison Krauss and Union Station and the vocalist on Avicii’s smash “Hey Brother.”
