Now well into his sixth decade, Michael McDermott keeps on producing records of quality from his home city of Chicago. The eagerly awaited Flowers from the Graveyard features eleven songs written by the artist and played by a well-honed band of collaborators that includes his wife, Heather Lynne Horton, and most of the team who played on his 2022 dual-release Lighthouse On the Shore and East Jesus.
The songs bear many of the hallmarks of a McDermott album and it bristles with opening chords that grab the attention and hold it until the very end. Choruses have an anthemic quality that sounds easy to create but probably isn’t and the overall sense is of a band hitting the open road with a couple of gas stops along…

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