Kentucky-born Joe Hazelwood got struck by lightning in 2001--an incident that prompted a personal awakening and his eventual move to Nashville.  Before that, his sound was what you might expect from a Gen. X baby who was brought home from the hospital to a mobile home.  But after the lightning strike, his music took on a kind of unusual tone.  His family and friends worried about him when he released Radio Noise in 2007, and folks thought he was on drugs when he put out The Golden Age in 2010.  Both albums invoked themes of "old weird America" that Hazelwood—a small-town electrician and self-taught musician—shouldn’t know anything about.  Maybe it was the lightning strike, or maybe it was just the shock of moving to the city, but Hazelwood was having trouble fitting in.  In 2012, he raised further concerns when he disappeared from the music scene and started Hazelwood Laboratories--a mad science lab for vintage electronic gadgets.  Meanwhile, he set out to rework his style—writing a whole new repertoire of music over the next 7 years.  Supposedly....   Nobody has ever heard any of it.