After his 20-year catalogue was rediscovered by Fire Records and reissued in the 'Napoleon Of Temperance' compilation of 2006, Dave Cloud, accompanied by various members of Lambchop and Silver Jews, has increasingly found his true voice as a witty outsider on the fringes of American alt-blues, It's entirely American, yet somehow taking the piss - which perhaps explains Cloud's success in Scandinavia, the UK, and rest of Europe, and why the purists might be a ronted, But for the rest of us, this wry take on gutter minded blues