A New Jersey native and former member of bands in New Jersey, Maryland, and N.Y.C. (where he attended grad school), Jeffrey Silverstein put down roots as an educator and writer in Portland, Oregon, before launching his solo career there. He expanded arrangements from the guitar and drum machine of his earliest songs to a dreamier palette that added bass, live drums, and pedal steel by his second album, Western Sky Music.
Picking up where that album left off — but seeming softer and gentler if anything, as if trying not to disturb the surrounding environment — Doggone was recorded with returning bassist and drummer Alex Chapman and Dana Buoy, pedal steel/electric guitarist Rick Pedrosa, and keyboardist Paul Damian Hogan. Its small handful of…

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