Phosphorescent

Wed., May 12, 9 p.m., $10-$13, with The Quelle Source, Blockley Pourhouse, 3801 Chestnut St., 215-222-1234, theblockley.com.

by K. Ross Hoffman

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Published: May 5, 2010

folk-rock/americana

Can you judge Matthew Houck by his covers? Phosphorescent's sparsely peopled '07 breakout gave a hirsute, backlit nod to the inexorable Will Oldham, and last year's outing was a straight-up Willie Nelson tribute. Here's to Taking It Easy should be an homage to the Eagles, all palm-tree'd and sun-dappled, and that's roughly how it plays, with a newly full-fledged band injecting some welcome sunshine and a rangy Neil Young looseness into the 'Bama-born Brooklynite's soft-country politesse on instant-classic sing-alongs like the wistful, Clem Snide-ish "The Mermaid Parade" and the terrific jaunty moper "Heaven, Sittin' Down."

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