Louisiana native Rod Melancon is a southern songwriter and storyteller rooted in the oral tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Larry Brown. Like the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't yet exist, Rod Melancon's Pinkville whips up a world filled with shell-shocked war veterans, gun-wielding rock and rollers, and other down-on-their-luck characters, mixing cinematic details and electric guitars into its own version of greasy, gothic Americana