Nate Beaty

The Motel Life (2007)

I've been a sort-of fan of Willy Vlautin's band, Richmond Fontaine, since moving to Portland, though I've never really paid attention to the lyrics in his alt-countryish narrative tunes. Part of the problem is Vlautin's singing voice, which is raspy and weary in that whiskey-soaked kind of way th...