Video: Willy Vlautin in a motel room

photo courtesy of MySpace Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today's featured selection, chosen by Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole, is Moving Back Home #2 by Richmond Fontaine from the 2007 album Thirteen Cities on Union Records. Richmond Fontaine - Moving Back Home #2 ( MP3 ) [...]

• Richmond Fontaine - Song A Day 379: Moving Back Home #2

Thirteen Cities - Richmond Fontaine El Cortez Records/Décor After the beautiful dustbowl austerity of previous album The Fitzgerald, Willy Vlautin and cohorts have relocated to the deserts of the Southern USA, residing in Tucson after years in Portland. Their travels south across these arid landscapes provided the inspiration for the songs collected on Thirteen Cities. The album comes with a map to trace out the route that they and the songs followed, a lovely touch in a world where the packaging of music seems to have become an afterthought. It's the attention to detail, not a word [...]