Starting in the first week of January 2013, Claxton Kent set off to spend the year recording new material with an aim toward developing a sound he could truly call his own. Using lyrics he'd written over the course of 2012, every week in 2013 he would write music for a randomly chosen lyric of the previous year and record it himself, posting the result to Bandcamp. At the close of the year, Claxton had 52 songs completed of shocking quality and expression. Shocking. The collection you behold now as"Yearbook 2013" is a compilation of the 12 very best taken from the full collection. Calling his resulting sound,"Countrified Murk," his instrumentation is often just the resonator 3-string bass, a 3 string gibson drone, his own vocals, and a Korg Wavedrum for percussion, recorded on a 16-track machine, produced and mixed by himself, and mastered not at all. (Claxton doesn't believe in mastering. Says it's"adulteration.")If you're a fan of the work of Richard Thompson, Ray Davies, Paul Simon or Joe Walsh you'll find a similar"thinking man's rock" sensibility with Claxton Kent, as well. He's a true original with a loner's viewpoint, and, while countrified and murky in sound, nowhere near Nashville.