The Winter Blanket

The Winter Blanket began as self-proclaimed students of the open-tuned, fragile compositions of Low, Nick Drake, and Red House Painters with their debut Hopeless Lullaby (2000) and follow-up Actors and Actresses (2002). By the time of their third full-length, Prescription Perils (2004), the sound had simultaneously absorbed outlaw-country and folk-rock elements, leaning more toward traditional song structures. The band toured a dozen times in support of these records playing alongside Richard Buckner, Magnolia Electric Co, Low, and M.