Hearing Assembly of Dust has the flush of meeting a stranger who will inform your life in profound & happy ways, someone whose wise council might help you see the world in a fresh light. They possess the same tuneful philosophizing as storytellers like The Band, Paul Simon and Crosby, Stills & Nash, giving the listener good songs playing on a daydream radio. Led by Reid Genauer, they make great homespun music. Parts are gentle and tempered with an earthy wisdom that understands whiskey & tears are often the best cures. Other moments find a more forceful voice supported by topnotch musicianship & blistering emotion. Formed in 2002 after Genauer left cult jam stars Strangefolk, AOD is made up of some of the finest East Coast musicians going.

Though only twenty-three, David McMillin has experienced a lifetime of love and loss, of good times and heartbreak. He’s been quietly touring the country for almost two years (headlining shows and supporting artists like Shelby Lynne, Josh Ritter, Tristan Prettyman, Marc Cohn, Ryan Bingham, Martin Sexton and Shawn Mullins), steadily following the road that the original troubadours took. Some call his music folk or blues, others say it’s alt. country. He’s got his own name for it: “old-fashioned whiskey and cigarettes rock and roll.”