Luke R. J. Maynard
@lukemaynard.bsky.social
Author, musician, lawyer, lapsed academic. Cat lover.
Disability warrior/advocate. Proud Canadian. Short-ish.
(He/him)
Disability warrior/advocate. Proud Canadian. Short-ish.
(He/him)
In the immortal words of Malcolm Reynolds, "Might've been on the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
This one's for you, #BlueJays fans. And you, #Watchmen fans, in case you're jealous the #MLB jocks get more love than us comic nerds during the #WorldSeries.
See you in 17 hours!
This one's for you, #BlueJays fans. And you, #Watchmen fans, in case you're jealous the #MLB jocks get more love than us comic nerds during the #WorldSeries.
See you in 17 hours!
October 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
In the immortal words of Malcolm Reynolds, "Might've been on the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
This one's for you, #BlueJays fans. And you, #Watchmen fans, in case you're jealous the #MLB jocks get more love than us comic nerds during the #WorldSeries.
See you in 17 hours!
This one's for you, #BlueJays fans. And you, #Watchmen fans, in case you're jealous the #MLB jocks get more love than us comic nerds during the #WorldSeries.
See you in 17 hours!
This would not be my first go-to movie choice, nor my first go-to Muppet.
But given the chance to choose a pairing, "Kill Bill Parts 1 & 2," but replace Beatrix Kiddo with Miss Piggy.
But given the chance to choose a pairing, "Kill Bill Parts 1 & 2," but replace Beatrix Kiddo with Miss Piggy.
Inverse Muppet premise: take a movie and replace one character with a Muppet. Everyone else stays human.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture, but have Gonzo be Dr. McCoy.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture, but have Gonzo be Dr. McCoy.
Star Trek First Contact but have Miss Piggy as the Borg Queen.
October 20, 2025 at 6:50 AM
This would not be my first go-to movie choice, nor my first go-to Muppet.
But given the chance to choose a pairing, "Kill Bill Parts 1 & 2," but replace Beatrix Kiddo with Miss Piggy.
But given the chance to choose a pairing, "Kill Bill Parts 1 & 2," but replace Beatrix Kiddo with Miss Piggy.
I've got some #newmusic up to start the week, if anyone in the #MusicSky world wants to check it out.
I've been using the "Refluxions" gimmick for covers; this is my first original in this format. Maybe I'll polish it into a single, but this is a very rough draft.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BM6...
I've been using the "Refluxions" gimmick for covers; this is my first original in this format. Maybe I'll polish it into a single, but this is a very rough draft.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BM6...
Canada Plays Canada: The Refluxions - Cracked-Out Little Thing (a Luke Maynard original!)
YouTube video by Luke Maynard
www.youtube.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I've got some #newmusic up to start the week, if anyone in the #MusicSky world wants to check it out.
I've been using the "Refluxions" gimmick for covers; this is my first original in this format. Maybe I'll polish it into a single, but this is a very rough draft.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BM6...
I've been using the "Refluxions" gimmick for covers; this is my first original in this format. Maybe I'll polish it into a single, but this is a very rough draft.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BM6...
Reposted by Luke R. J. Maynard
I almost forgot: today is #BandCampFriday, the first Friday of the month when #Bandcamp supports #indiemusic by giving its share of all album sales back to the artists.
If you still want to #BuyCanadian, this is as Canadian an album as I could make. 🍁🦫
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...
If you still want to #BuyCanadian, this is as Canadian an album as I could make. 🍁🦫
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...
Desolation Sound, by Luke Maynard
17 track album
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com
August 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I almost forgot: today is #BandCampFriday, the first Friday of the month when #Bandcamp supports #indiemusic by giving its share of all album sales back to the artists.
If you still want to #BuyCanadian, this is as Canadian an album as I could make. 🍁🦫
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...
If you still want to #BuyCanadian, this is as Canadian an album as I could make. 🍁🦫
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...
I almost forgot: today is #BandCampFriday, the first Friday of the month when #Bandcamp supports #indiemusic by giving its share of all album sales back to the artists.
If you still want to #BuyCanadian, this is as Canadian an album as I could make. 🍁🦫
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...
If you still want to #BuyCanadian, this is as Canadian an album as I could make. 🍁🦫
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...
Desolation Sound, by Luke Maynard
17 track album
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com
August 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I almost forgot: today is #BandCampFriday, the first Friday of the month when #Bandcamp supports #indiemusic by giving its share of all album sales back to the artists.
If you still want to #BuyCanadian, this is as Canadian an album as I could make. 🍁🦫
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...
If you still want to #BuyCanadian, this is as Canadian an album as I could make. 🍁🦫
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...
My dystopian fear as a #writer in the #writingcomnunity isn't a world where every human uses #AI to think & write. it's a world where under its pervasive influence, every human eventually thinks & writes so much like AI that it doesn't matter if they use it or not.
June 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
My dystopian fear as a #writer in the #writingcomnunity isn't a world where every human uses #AI to think & write. it's a world where under its pervasive influence, every human eventually thinks & writes so much like AI that it doesn't matter if they use it or not.
I wonder sometimes what would've happened if #BrianWilson had worked with the Prophet Isiah or the Book of Psalms as his lyricist, and G.F. #Handel had been left to write about fast cars, teenage romance, and surfing.
Who, truly, captured the heavens in harmony?
RIP Brian.
youtu.be/VS4sKZMkJOQ?...
Who, truly, captured the heavens in harmony?
RIP Brian.
youtu.be/VS4sKZMkJOQ?...
Our Prayer / Gee
YouTube video by Brian Wilson - Topic
youtu.be
June 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I wonder sometimes what would've happened if #BrianWilson had worked with the Prophet Isiah or the Book of Psalms as his lyricist, and G.F. #Handel had been left to write about fast cars, teenage romance, and surfing.
Who, truly, captured the heavens in harmony?
RIP Brian.
youtu.be/VS4sKZMkJOQ?...
Who, truly, captured the heavens in harmony?
RIP Brian.
youtu.be/VS4sKZMkJOQ?...
Awright! I made a Friesh Thing - well-kent, ah hawp, but aye worth getting in th'kin, innit?
Sadly I can't do justice to #JohnMartyn 's iconic Glaswegian mumble. Wrangling the audio/video for this four-piece vid was a huge headache. I hope it was worth it!
#MusicianSky #MusicSky #IndieFolk #Music
Sadly I can't do justice to #JohnMartyn 's iconic Glaswegian mumble. Wrangling the audio/video for this four-piece vid was a huge headache. I hope it was worth it!
#MusicianSky #MusicSky #IndieFolk #Music
Canada Plays Scotland: Luke Maynard and the Refluxions - May You Never (John Martyn)
YouTube video by Luke Maynard
youtu.be
June 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Awright! I made a Friesh Thing - well-kent, ah hawp, but aye worth getting in th'kin, innit?
Sadly I can't do justice to #JohnMartyn 's iconic Glaswegian mumble. Wrangling the audio/video for this four-piece vid was a huge headache. I hope it was worth it!
#MusicianSky #MusicSky #IndieFolk #Music
Sadly I can't do justice to #JohnMartyn 's iconic Glaswegian mumble. Wrangling the audio/video for this four-piece vid was a huge headache. I hope it was worth it!
#MusicianSky #MusicSky #IndieFolk #Music
I'm sure a few folks on #MusicSky know the joy of recovering access to masters you once thought lost. But 18 years later?
I doubt many of the #indiemusic crowd are that old. But I am!
I'm looking (& listening) backward to past chapters, and forward to future ones.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tqia7...
I doubt many of the #indiemusic crowd are that old. But I am!
I'm looking (& listening) backward to past chapters, and forward to future ones.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tqia7...
www.dropbox.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I'm sure a few folks on #MusicSky know the joy of recovering access to masters you once thought lost. But 18 years later?
I doubt many of the #indiemusic crowd are that old. But I am!
I'm looking (& listening) backward to past chapters, and forward to future ones.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tqia7...
I doubt many of the #indiemusic crowd are that old. But I am!
I'm looking (& listening) backward to past chapters, and forward to future ones.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tqia7...
I'm not sure why I'm suddenly so popular here…but hi & welcome!
I'll try to offer content worthy of your feed: this is my "peacetime" social media. I try to leave my vicious politicized snark (some might prefer that) on the birdsite, now my "wartime" site.
Here's a song new to #BlueSky/ #MusicSky.
I'll try to offer content worthy of your feed: this is my "peacetime" social media. I try to leave my vicious politicized snark (some might prefer that) on the birdsite, now my "wartime" site.
Here's a song new to #BlueSky/ #MusicSky.
To Be Loved (audio only) - a Luke Maynard Original
YouTube video by Luke Maynard
www.youtube.com
May 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I saw this news item, then Ms. Öztürk's name, and a photo of a woman in a headscarf. I rejoiced. I wondered what vile dictatorship we negotiated her release from—until I saw.
In my day, the USA were the ones negotiating for this wonan's freedom. I'm still getting used to seeing them as the jailers.
In my day, the USA were the ones negotiating for this wonan's freedom. I'm still getting used to seeing them as the jailers.
May 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I saw this news item, then Ms. Öztürk's name, and a photo of a woman in a headscarf. I rejoiced. I wondered what vile dictatorship we negotiated her release from—until I saw.
In my day, the USA were the ones negotiating for this wonan's freedom. I'm still getting used to seeing them as the jailers.
In my day, the USA were the ones negotiating for this wonan's freedom. I'm still getting used to seeing them as the jailers.
Dear #indiemusic lovers of #MusicSky,
I can't think of a better time (OK 6 hours ago would've been nice) to remind you that today is #BandcampFriday: all proceeds to the artists!
If you're keen to #BuyCanadian, this is the most Canadian #music I could make:
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...
I can't think of a better time (OK 6 hours ago would've been nice) to remind you that today is #BandcampFriday: all proceeds to the artists!
If you're keen to #BuyCanadian, this is the most Canadian #music I could make:
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...
Desolation Sound, by Luke Maynard
17 track album
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com
May 3, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Dear #indiemusic lovers of #MusicSky,
I can't think of a better time (OK 6 hours ago would've been nice) to remind you that today is #BandcampFriday: all proceeds to the artists!
If you're keen to #BuyCanadian, this is the most Canadian #music I could make:
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...
I can't think of a better time (OK 6 hours ago would've been nice) to remind you that today is #BandcampFriday: all proceeds to the artists!
If you're keen to #BuyCanadian, this is the most Canadian #music I could make:
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...
Hard to believe that I started my main #YouTube channel 12 years go today.
This is the first thing I ever posted; 12 years later I'm still playing wit...uh, my own band.
My playing may not have gotten much better, but the lighting sure has!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqOJ...
#MusicSky #Acoustic #jazz
This is the first thing I ever posted; 12 years later I'm still playing wit...uh, my own band.
My playing may not have gotten much better, but the lighting sure has!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqOJ...
#MusicSky #Acoustic #jazz
Luke Maynard - Sweet Georgia Brown (Splitscreen Test)
YouTube video by Luke Maynard
www.youtube.com
April 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Hard to believe that I started my main #YouTube channel 12 years go today.
This is the first thing I ever posted; 12 years later I'm still playing wit...uh, my own band.
My playing may not have gotten much better, but the lighting sure has!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqOJ...
#MusicSky #Acoustic #jazz
This is the first thing I ever posted; 12 years later I'm still playing wit...uh, my own band.
My playing may not have gotten much better, but the lighting sure has!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqOJ...
#MusicSky #Acoustic #jazz
Tell a friend.
Tell your enemies, too, unless you want the richest man in the world to buy their DNA to make roboclones of the most awful people.
Tell your enemies, too, unless you want the richest man in the world to buy their DNA to make roboclones of the most awful people.
How to delete your 23andMe data
1 Log in to your account
2 Go to "settings"
3 Scroll to "23andMe data"
4 Click "view"
5 Scroll to "delete data"
6 Click "permanently delete data"
7 Confirm your request
1 Log in to your account
2 Go to "settings"
3 Scroll to "23andMe data"
4 Click "view"
5 Scroll to "delete data"
6 Click "permanently delete data"
7 Confirm your request
March 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Tell a friend.
Tell your enemies, too, unless you want the richest man in the world to buy their DNA to make roboclones of the most awful people.
Tell your enemies, too, unless you want the richest man in the world to buy their DNA to make roboclones of the most awful people.
Part of my #BuyCanadian mission this year includes listening, playing, & singing Canadian.🍁
I can't think of a finer place to start than #JoniMitchell, who is probably pound for pound the best #songwriter our great country has ever produced.
Thanks for listening, #MusicSky. 🎶
youtu.be/q5eknnLtbvc
I can't think of a finer place to start than #JoniMitchell, who is probably pound for pound the best #songwriter our great country has ever produced.
Thanks for listening, #MusicSky. 🎶
youtu.be/q5eknnLtbvc
Luke Maynard reunites with the Refluxions for a cover of Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"
YouTube video by Luke Maynard
youtu.be
March 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Part of my #BuyCanadian mission this year includes listening, playing, & singing Canadian.🍁
I can't think of a finer place to start than #JoniMitchell, who is probably pound for pound the best #songwriter our great country has ever produced.
Thanks for listening, #MusicSky. 🎶
youtu.be/q5eknnLtbvc
I can't think of a finer place to start than #JoniMitchell, who is probably pound for pound the best #songwriter our great country has ever produced.
Thanks for listening, #MusicSky. 🎶
youtu.be/q5eknnLtbvc
Okay, #MusicSky, this one's a brand new recording, no bells, no whistles. Just me celebrating my new all-canadian guitar Sam with some Blind Arthur Blake.
I'll do some multitrack stuff soon, so add me here and on YouTube!
youtu.be/f2zYNN1BcOA?...
#nowplaying #blues #Acoustic #MusicianSky #Acoustic
I'll do some multitrack stuff soon, so add me here and on YouTube!
youtu.be/f2zYNN1BcOA?...
#nowplaying #blues #Acoustic #MusicianSky #Acoustic
Luke Maynard and Sam - Rope Stretchin' Blues (Blind Arthur Blake cover)
YouTube video by Luke Maynard
youtu.be
March 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Okay, #MusicSky, this one's a brand new recording, no bells, no whistles. Just me celebrating my new all-canadian guitar Sam with some Blind Arthur Blake.
I'll do some multitrack stuff soon, so add me here and on YouTube!
youtu.be/f2zYNN1BcOA?...
#nowplaying #blues #Acoustic #MusicianSky #Acoustic
I'll do some multitrack stuff soon, so add me here and on YouTube!
youtu.be/f2zYNN1BcOA?...
#nowplaying #blues #Acoustic #MusicianSky #Acoustic
My receipt on BlueSky so far, courtesy of bskypt.vercel.app
Is that really how I talk?
A few of my skeets are just old Twitter retweets... so I guess the right people know when they're not new. 😅
Is that really how I talk?
A few of my skeets are just old Twitter retweets... so I guess the right people know when they're not new. 😅
Bskypt | Receipt for Luke R. J. Maynard
Checkout this cool social receipt for Luke R. J. Maynard on Bskypt.
bskypt.vercel.app
February 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
My receipt on BlueSky so far, courtesy of bskypt.vercel.app
Is that really how I talk?
A few of my skeets are just old Twitter retweets... so I guess the right people know when they're not new. 😅
Is that really how I talk?
A few of my skeets are just old Twitter retweets... so I guess the right people know when they're not new. 😅
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In certain communities—ironically, the ones I'm most comfortable in—my "he/him" pronoun & AMAB face are like being born with a police uniform tattooed onto me.
I wear a history of other people's violence on my skin—and no, I can't shave it off, not if I shave down to bare blood. No matter who…
In certain communities—ironically, the ones I'm most comfortable in—my "he/him" pronoun & AMAB face are like being born with a police uniform tattooed onto me.
I wear a history of other people's violence on my skin—and no, I can't shave it off, not if I shave down to bare blood. No matter who…
February 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
1/2
In certain communities—ironically, the ones I'm most comfortable in—my "he/him" pronoun & AMAB face are like being born with a police uniform tattooed onto me.
I wear a history of other people's violence on my skin—and no, I can't shave it off, not if I shave down to bare blood. No matter who…
In certain communities—ironically, the ones I'm most comfortable in—my "he/him" pronoun & AMAB face are like being born with a police uniform tattooed onto me.
I wear a history of other people's violence on my skin—and no, I can't shave it off, not if I shave down to bare blood. No matter who…
1/x
I owe someone an apology on this site, I think, for causing offence where I didn't mean to—for replying to correct a two-year-old piece of misinformation that might have seemed like a petty correction, if you notice (as I didn't) that it was a very old skeet indeed.
Sadly, I can't apologize…
I owe someone an apology on this site, I think, for causing offence where I didn't mean to—for replying to correct a two-year-old piece of misinformation that might have seemed like a petty correction, if you notice (as I didn't) that it was a very old skeet indeed.
Sadly, I can't apologize…
February 15, 2025 at 10:39 AM
1/x
I owe someone an apology on this site, I think, for causing offence where I didn't mean to—for replying to correct a two-year-old piece of misinformation that might have seemed like a petty correction, if you notice (as I didn't) that it was a very old skeet indeed.
Sadly, I can't apologize…
I owe someone an apology on this site, I think, for causing offence where I didn't mean to—for replying to correct a two-year-old piece of misinformation that might have seemed like a petty correction, if you notice (as I didn't) that it was a very old skeet indeed.
Sadly, I can't apologize…
After more than 1,000 peer-reviewed studies, doctors worldwide have found that Placebo produces no ill effects in any of its patients. Placebo is considered safe for young people, the elderly, pregnant and nursing women, and more.
Ask your doctor if Placebo is right for you!
Ask your doctor if Placebo is right for you!
February 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
After more than 1,000 peer-reviewed studies, doctors worldwide have found that Placebo produces no ill effects in any of its patients. Placebo is considered safe for young people, the elderly, pregnant and nursing women, and more.
Ask your doctor if Placebo is right for you!
Ask your doctor if Placebo is right for you!
"Free" is a magic word these days. Few things are. My first album, because reasons, is not free (though wow, it's cheap!).
This debut electronica album by Partixan IS free: a gift to #MusicianSky that I don't take lightly. Download, share, and really listen. That's how we grow as a #musiccommunity.
This debut electronica album by Partixan IS free: a gift to #MusicianSky that I don't take lightly. Download, share, and really listen. That's how we grow as a #musiccommunity.
My first full length album "Dog Island" is now live on my bandcamp page. Available to stream and download completely for free, dog Island is an eclectic blend of various electronic genres.
#MusicSky #MusicianSky #IndieMusic
partixan.bandcamp.com/album/dog-is...
#MusicSky #MusicianSky #IndieMusic
partixan.bandcamp.com/album/dog-is...
Dog Island (LP), by Partixan
12 track album
partixan.bandcamp.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
"Free" is a magic word these days. Few things are. My first album, because reasons, is not free (though wow, it's cheap!).
This debut electronica album by Partixan IS free: a gift to #MusicianSky that I don't take lightly. Download, share, and really listen. That's how we grow as a #musiccommunity.
This debut electronica album by Partixan IS free: a gift to #MusicianSky that I don't take lightly. Download, share, and really listen. That's how we grow as a #musiccommunity.
#TRUMP: "Bye bye, #Gaza. Hello new #WestBank, My West Bank. Costa del Trump. Donaldville. Marina del Trump… Elonburg?"
#ElonMusk:"Ivanka, she's got her own place."
Trump:"Elonburg?!"
Elon:"It's a little bitty place."
Trump:"ELONBURG!?!"
Elon:"I'll just wipe that off..."
#ElonMusk:"Ivanka, she's got her own place."
Trump:"Elonburg?!"
Elon:"It's a little bitty place."
Trump:"ELONBURG!?!"
Elon:"I'll just wipe that off..."
February 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
#TRUMP: "Bye bye, #Gaza. Hello new #WestBank, My West Bank. Costa del Trump. Donaldville. Marina del Trump… Elonburg?"
#ElonMusk:"Ivanka, she's got her own place."
Trump:"Elonburg?!"
Elon:"It's a little bitty place."
Trump:"ELONBURG!?!"
Elon:"I'll just wipe that off..."
#ElonMusk:"Ivanka, she's got her own place."
Trump:"Elonburg?!"
Elon:"It's a little bitty place."
Trump:"ELONBURG!?!"
Elon:"I'll just wipe that off..."
I think, after careful thought on the matter, this is my "Peacetime" public social media account.
I still have a Twitter account over on Egon Stink's site, X (not an "X account"), which I was keeping in solidarity with the folks who can't leave yet "because reasons."
That's my wartme account now.
I still have a Twitter account over on Egon Stink's site, X (not an "X account"), which I was keeping in solidarity with the folks who can't leave yet "because reasons."
That's my wartme account now.
January 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I think, after careful thought on the matter, this is my "Peacetime" public social media account.
I still have a Twitter account over on Egon Stink's site, X (not an "X account"), which I was keeping in solidarity with the folks who can't leave yet "because reasons."
That's my wartme account now.
I still have a Twitter account over on Egon Stink's site, X (not an "X account"), which I was keeping in solidarity with the folks who can't leave yet "because reasons."
That's my wartme account now.
Facebook put virtually ALL our social media data onto American servers, and made Zuckerberg a super-billionaire.
Imagine if every country Trump has threatened went in on a new, GLOBALLY managed & hosted social media site, blocked all U.S. IPs, and put all profits into an allied global defence grid.
Imagine if every country Trump has threatened went in on a new, GLOBALLY managed & hosted social media site, blocked all U.S. IPs, and put all profits into an allied global defence grid.
January 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Facebook put virtually ALL our social media data onto American servers, and made Zuckerberg a super-billionaire.
Imagine if every country Trump has threatened went in on a new, GLOBALLY managed & hosted social media site, blocked all U.S. IPs, and put all profits into an allied global defence grid.
Imagine if every country Trump has threatened went in on a new, GLOBALLY managed & hosted social media site, blocked all U.S. IPs, and put all profits into an allied global defence grid.
It's #BandcampFriday today—the day when #Bandcamp cedes its royalty share to the artist if you buy (and own *outright* rather than stream) some #newmusic.
For now, here's some #Canadian #indiefolk —but I guess it'll be #Americana once we're the #51stState?😅
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...
For now, here's some #Canadian #indiefolk —but I guess it'll be #Americana once we're the #51stState?😅
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...
Desolation Sound, by Luke Maynard
17 track album
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
It's #BandcampFriday today—the day when #Bandcamp cedes its royalty share to the artist if you buy (and own *outright* rather than stream) some #newmusic.
For now, here's some #Canadian #indiefolk —but I guess it'll be #Americana once we're the #51stState?😅
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...
For now, here's some #Canadian #indiefolk —but I guess it'll be #Americana once we're the #51stState?😅
lukemaynard.bandcamp.com/album/desola...