Robert Finley

I remember the first time my pawpaw took me down to the Black Bayou, Robert Finley recalls on Alligator Bait, a talking blues that closes out his visceral and vibrant new record. As the guitars pop and crackle around him, coalescing into a slow rhythmic crawl like an airboat along muddy waters, the 70-year-old Louisiana native casts back in his memory for this harrowing story. Dressed in swamp boots and waders, the kid stepped on a log and the log moved! His grandfather shot the gator that snapp...