Kieran Kane and Kevin Welch - Kane Welch Kaplin

As songwriters, performers, innovators and founders of the influential Dead Reckoning record label, Kieran Kane and Kevin Welch have made a career of letting the song lead the way.

In the process, they midwifed a new genre of American roots music, blazing a trail for other artists to explore and develop. Yet their modus operandi remains the same: to craft and compose with no goal other than to let the song realize itself.

In 2003 they joined forces with Fats Kaplin, the renowned multi-instrumentalist and 'this generation's Ry Cooder', to create an Americana super group that makes music with roots parameters but in the spontaneity and vibe of a jazz recording.

Joined this time around by Kieran's son Lucas, Kane Welch Kaplin picks up where Lost John Dean left off featuring an entire album of roots music gems from the pens of the original Godfathers of Americana. The groove is tighter, the tunes sparser; they've gone from being a group of accomplished individuals to a solid soulful unit.

• Ain't Gonna Do It
• I Wish I Had That Mandolin
• Red Light Blinking
• That's What I've Got
• Last Lost Highway
• Zagnut
• Callin' You
• Highland Mary
• Dark Boogie #7
• No One Told Me
• 12 Chimes
• What Are They Doin' in Heaven Today?