Neal Casal makes the type of inoffensive acoustic folk that ZZZZZZ. Neal Casal can play his acoustic guitar very well and SNOOOORE. Neal Casal is the guitar player in Ryan Adams’ Cardinals and YAAAAAAWN. Okay. I’ve got myself a cup of coffee. Neal Casal has a nice voice, no particular lyrical insights, and plays the type of rootsy major to minor chord progressions that are simultaneously comforting and yawn-inducing. I propose, in keeping with Keynesian nationalism that we apply some economic protectionism to the music industry. I mean, why go for something like Neal Casal when you could listen to one of the countless, melodious strummers boring a venue closer to home? And the people of California would look after Neal Casal and there’d be no need for him to go global. He could stay at home with his family on some sort of state stipend (I believe Nazism also started with an act of music journalism).

Key Track: 'The Losing End Again'