A gentle-voiced Australian artist whose introspective folk songs and earthy tone harken back to the singer/songwriter era of the early '70s, Dan Parsons made his name with a series of warmly captured albums in the early 2010s. As a multi-instrumentalist and producer, he redefined his sound on his back-to-basics, self-titled release in 2013, setting up a stylistic shift that would inform later outings like 2018's Sunday Morning Cinema.
Raised in the town of Cedar Creek in rural Queensland, Parsons' musical inclinations were widely supported by his parents and by the age of 15,...