Great American Canyon Band is the pastoral indie folk project of musical and marital partners Paul and Kris Masson. Both natives of Baltimore, Maryland, the duo spent several years traveling the United States, staying for a time in Georgia, California, and Illinois, where their first songs began to take shape. Citing a variety of influences from Mazzy Star to Gram Parsons, their approach to indie folk has a textural nature evoking long empty roads and wide vistas. Their self-recorded, self-released debut EP arrived in 2012, earning some early praise for the band, though they w...