Cowboy hats and colorful shirts can be a deceiving thing for musicians. For a general set of listeners that rely on musical snippets it would immediately indicate that who they have in front of them is your regular cow poking country singer whose life dream is to end up in some Nashville studio leading her/him to Billboard country charts.
Yet in these modern times, classic country (and western) is just one stream, and country pop, roots, Americana, and Canadiana are not only the terms in vogue, but very real genres or sub-genres, however you want to play it, and cowboy hats and colorful shirts are just a prop and a reference that can mean quite a few things.
That brings us to Boy Golden and his latest album, Best of Our Possible Lives. For many…