Being able to sequence songs from any point in a multidecade catalog of recordings into a double-album that makes sense musically is no small feat, but All Before Yesterday, PK Mayo's new, 23-track career spanning retrospective, does just that with ease and grace. He began issuing albums under his real name, Paul Mayasich, "around 2000," shifted to PK Mayo after about six or seven releases, and has never looked back. Before he was even out of grade school, an immediate visceral reaction to the slide work of Duane Allman and Ry Cooder on first listen, led him to the blues. "It was mostly the slide guys who got me early on," he says, "that really haunting stuff down at the dark end of the street. From then on, blues was always a part of everything. I didn't own a guitar until I was 12 or 13, but I knew well before that... I saw the path." Although he generally resists the term songwriter, there's a maturity in these songs that reflect a very open set of ears and a willingness to listen. 23 tracks may seem like a daunting amount of music to digest, but there's so much variety that it never gets tired or repetitive, which is a credit to his craft. Under a broad umbrella it's 'roots music,' plain and simple, but unpacking that suitcase there's blues, rock, old-timey, post-modern folk, and some things that defy quick and easy classification. Even though he sounds NOTHING like Tom Waits and/or Jackson Browne...or a deconstructed DNA link between Exile on Main St. Stones, Rev. Gary Davis and (maybe) Blind Faith, it's plain to see they've all been on rotation in his head at one time or another. No matter how it hits you or you slice it, All Before Yesterday always winds its way back to the blues. Or, as he puts it, "Some people have said, 'you should do a blues album,' and to me, they all are!"

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