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Americana, folk.

Benjamin Dakota Rogers’ ‘Paint Horse’ is a plaintive offering, veined with the sensibilities of an accomplished storyteller and steeped in the folk music of his roots.

This is music by someone who knows where he’s singing from and what it means to be. You can feel it on every track.

Ontario. A small barn on a “recently retired” tobacco farm in the eastern Canadian province is where Benjamin Dakota Rogers calls home. The subject matter of Paint Horse isn’t small in the slightest, but it has a feel that reflects such quiet intimacy.
Over 12 originals and a cover of ‘Blackjack County Chain’, Rogers welcomes a vast cast of characters, from the doomed “Rosie” to the vengeful antihero of ‘John Came Home”. More than half of these songs are named for people: together their tales make up the kind of mythos that most songwriters can only dream of.
The spotlight may have found its way onto Rogers via TikTok, but he’s got old-school lineage to boot; exhibited in the way he handles the 1922 Stella four-string that he got from fellow Alt-Country Canadian Fred Eaglesmith.

Paint Horse features the same three instrumentalists throughout. Peter Klaassen plays bass, Sam Clark coaxes out some brilliant fiddle sounds, while Rogers tracks most everything else. Tracks like ‘Charlie Boy’ and ‘Eloise’ take well-worn traditional forms, but situate them within Rogers’ own songbook, where they crackle with life. There are moments late in the record where the riffs and reels Rogers coaxes from that four-string sound a little familiar, but his playing never loses any of its immediacy.
Rogers’s biggest feat with Paint Horse is the way he’s fused the hardscrabble tales of the people from songs with a lived-in love for his surroundings. On ‘Little Old Paint Horse’, Rogers’ lover is compared to an oak tree: “And she holds me in her branches / When I can’t stand at all”.

With Paint Horse, you can imagine yourself situated before the trio in Roger’s barn, hearing the songs come to life. This is music by someone who knows where he’s singing from and what it means to be. You can feel it on every track.

Tracks:
01. Little Old Paint Horse
02. John Came Home
03. Arlo
04. Maggie
05. Back to You
06. Wild Wind Can Have Me
07. Blackjack County Chain
08. Jeremiah
09. Greyhound
10. Charlie Boy
11. Rosie
12. Eloise
13. Goodnight V2

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