Domestic Eccentric

As the title suggests, Domestic Eccentric is mostly a record about home and family. Fittingly enough, it was recorded at Old Man Luedecke's own backwoods cabin that he’d built himself from rough-sawn lumber. There, after a 500-yard road had been cut through record amounts of snow so as to install top-grade recording equipment, he was joined by A-list multi-instrumentalist Tim O’Brien, who had previously recorded with Luedecke on the award-winning 2012 release Tender is the Night. Friends and neighbours including James Taylor's drummer Nick Halley, vocalist Jennah Barry and engineer John D Southern Adams also dropped by to spend a week recording. The songs themselves are intimate and, yes, just a little eccentric. They’re about what it can be like to be a young(ish) man with roustabout dreams; a man still in love with the woman he started writing songs about over a decade ago; a man who has watched his babies become children. That might sound self-indulgent. But no more or less than, say, the great Loudon Wainwright III, especially when the songs are tempered by Luedecke's unabashed love for his life yet slightly quizzical, even comical, take on it all.