“I hear it’s warmer than it ought to be / up there at the start of the Mississippi,” Creekbed Carter Hogan sings on “Burn.” “And the evergreens are like candle trees / they’re leaning into the burn.”
The third track on Carter’s new Peasants Revolt starts on a tense Appalachian simmer, but launches into propulsive highway Americana at the midpoint. It’s an open-road song consciously written in the final gasps of the petroleum era.
“Let it burn,” Carter sings.
