As songwriters, performers, innovators and founders of the influential Dead Reckoning record label, Kieran Kane and Kevin Welch have made a career of letting the song lead the way. In 2003 they joined forces with Fats Kaplin, the renowned multi-instrumentalist and “this generation’s Ry Cooder,” to create an Americana super group that makes music with roots parameters but in the spontaneity and vibe of a jazz recording.