John Calvin Abney visiting 'Transparent Towns' on new album

Oklahoma music artist John Calvin Abney has something to say about memories and the passage of time in a new album released Friday. The 10 tracks on the album, “ Transparent Towns ,” were written during a period of introspection while recovering from vocal cord surgery in 2023. “The time to himself, a year without singing and months spent in near-total silence, left him seeking meaning in the invisible markers of time: old cafes, forgotten voices, small towns transformed by progress and loss,” said a news release about the album....