Strange Time Blues is the band’s fifth release, and appears on their own DynaPhonic Records label, after multiple records on the legendary Arhoolie/Smithsonian Records and Little Village Foundation. “It’s tricky to show reverence without becoming a museum piece shot full of formaldehyde,” Forte (Vintage Guitar Magazine) says in the liner notes, “but HowellDevine deftly navigates that tightrope, making the old sound fresh and rendering the new timeless.”