Singer-songwriter Afton Wolfe is arguably the most conceptually artful troubadour that we have heard since Tom Waits. The reference to Waits is rather obvious in Wolfe’s deep, gravelly voice and in his off-the-beaten-track concepts. Yet, Wolfe also possesses the fearlessness of Bruce Cockburn, the intellectualism of Leonard Cohen, the deep woods poetry of the late Malcolm Holcolm, and the dark mysticism and southern Gothic of his native Mississippi.
Ophiuchus is named for a little-known large constellation known as  “Serpent-bearer” (most appropriate in the Year of the Snake and in our current society, where deception, deceit, and lying have become commonplace). Wolfe has issued every track as a single, culminating…

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