TUMBLEWEED WANDERERS

So Long

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Are those echoes of Sugar Ray’s “Fly” in “Take It Back,” the closest the Wanderers come on their debut album to penning a summer jam? Could be—the members of this San Fran Americana quintet are children of the ’90s, even if they’d like to pretend otherwise. “This ain’t ’69 / you’ve gotta change your mind,” frontman Jeremy Lyon sings on the soulful “Take It Back,” only half serious in his disavowal of the Woodstock era. Flush with CSNY harmonies, folkie guitars, hobo harps, zippy banjos, Zombies organs and gospel backing vocals, So Long is the sound of young dudes trying on old-man duds and marveling at how well they fit.