Geography, or at least a sense of place, can help country songwriters find a new gear. That’s the case with Simon Flory and his new album Man of Visions . To record the LP, Flory, an Indiana native, decamped from his home base of Fort Worth, Texas, to the Panhandle town of Turkey, where he immersed himself in the dusty, desolate vibes of the burg.

That it’s also the hometown of Bob Wills , Western swing legend, didn’t hurt.

Last week, Flory released the barn-dance project Man of Visions , a 10-track album that mixes bluegrass with folk, Appalachia with Texas. On the single “Truth Ain’t Hard to Find,” which arrived on Halloween with a music video filmed in Turkey, Flory and his co-writer, Nashville singer-songwriter Zach Schmidt , try to make sense of a world diluted by misinfor

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