With a sound self-characterized as Appalachian Rock, David Stükenberg strides a few steps ahead of the music scene, both in lyric and in a sound original to the artist himself. Stükenberg's recent release, Novella, capitalizes on the Appalachian tradition of storytelling with its fictionalized musical narrative, consolidating influences and anecdotes from David's past into a distilled series of stories and thought-provoking scenarios. With a musical backdrop teetering between early Fleetwood Mac's eerie backwoods melodies and the distorted, almost-Pentecostal energy of a church service led by Rage Against the Machine, the album grabs your attention and simply wont let go. www.StukenbergMusic.com