After you, dear Bad Penny readers, gobbled up our recent post in which we exclusively premiered a new song (“Last Time Last Night”) by desert-rock pioneers Crumpler, we hit up the main man behind the project – Jacob Floyd Ross – for another contribution. One of the more generous, kind and brilliant artists with whom we’ve become acquainted in recent memory, Ross eagerly accepted our request and drew up a list of the best albums to listen to in the desert.
Because “desert rock” has developed connotations linking it to the Palm Desert scene that birthed Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Yawning Man and the like, we’re characterizing this list as an array of albums that Ross considers best-suited for long spells in the desert and/or road trips. He picked an array of irrefutably classic records – all of which are arguably some of the best rock releases of all time.
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