Home recording was part of songwriting from the very beginning for me,” Dowdy said when I reached him in early April. “It wasn’t about playing shows, it wasn’t about having a band, it was about ...

Aaron Dowdy is constantly writing songs — recording ... as his Durham-based band Fust has slowly drawn attention from fans and critics alike in the past few years. (The influential music site ...

For Aaron Dowdy, the frontman for North Carolina’s Fust, choosing “Spangled” as the alt country band’s lead single seemed natural on a number of fronts. “’Spangled’ felt like a ...