Can Ky Ree January 30, 2007

Can Ky Ree is a Chicago trio of quiet masters: pianist and bassist Ryan Hembrey, pedal-steel guitarist Steve Dorocke, and guitarist and singer Tom Musick. Hembrey and Dorocke have contributed their talents as sidemen to numerous projects, and here emerge as backseat drivers on Musick's long and serpentine road trip through eerie and melancholy Americana. On the band's self-released debut, they navigate rueful honky-tonk, moody insinuations, and sinister quasi-Appalachian balladry with equal grace.