
You meet crazy characters who look like they were assembled from crafts day paper doll offcuts by someone who was absolutely tripping balls. You see the kinds of curious vistas which, if you saw them on an album cover, would serve as a fair indicator that the shortest track would likely clock in at around eleven minutes long. The search for inspiration for his alter ego leads Francis across the cosmic expanse, taking in some truly jaw-dropping sights along the way. perhaps too big for a quiet mountain town teenager, and so the quest to develop the greatest rock persona ever and become a living legend begins.Īnd what a quest it is. Francis wants to blow minds and change lives with his soaring solos, to channel the furthest reaches of the cosmos through an axe and an amp, to musically explore not just the unknown but the unknowable. But Francis doesn't want to play folk music. The Artful Escape tells the tale of young Francis Vendetti, an aspiring guitarist desperate to break out of the shadow of his uncle, Johnson Vendetti - a famous folk musician who recently passed away, leaving all eyes in their sleepy home town to fall on Francis to continue Johnson's folk legacy.
