Minneapolis-based folk rockers, The Pines, have always been led by the insightful songwriting of David Huckfelt. On I Was Born, But…, we don’t get his songwriting; instead, we get inspired interpretations of mostly lesser-known works by a wide range of North American songwriters. In some respects, the album reads much like Dylan’s Self-Portrait. In fact, both have a version of Gordon Lightfoot’s classic “Early Morning Rain.” That, along with George Jones’s “The Race Is On,’ and Bo Diddley’s “Who Do You Love?” are by far the most recognizable in this group of fifteen. And speaking of Dylan, I find similarities to the Duluth bard’s vocals with Huckfelt, which is rather interesting, considering I had never made such an observation through Huckfelt’s work with The Pines…

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