It’s hard not to feel a sense of place when listening to Eli Winter’s music. From his first solo effort to his myriad collaborations, Winter often evokes bucolic landscapes with his precise fingerpicking and lilting major-key melodies, conjuring up panoramic vistas and cascading streams with preternatural ease. A Houston native and self-taught wizard of the American Primitive style of folk music, he feels particularly freed from any overwrought sense of tradition or constrictions that fellow adherents can often fall prey to. There’s a certain frontier spirit, a Western sense of exploration and adventure rather than a hidebound historicity, to his particular approach.
That spirit also finds a more distinct sense of place in his adopted hometown of Chicago,…

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