I'm not familiar with his main project, but Ben Nichols of the country band Lucero recorded a concept album based off Cormac McCarthy's novel
Blood Meridian entitled
The Last Pale Light in the West. I'd rather listen to this any day over some Florida Georgia Line tripe...
McCarthy is my favorite author, and to hear his bloody and desolate vision of the American frontier translated into music has interesting and clever results. I can't really fuck with Ben's vocals, so the instrumental track ("The Judge") is by far my favorite. I can see it being played over the credits of a hypothetical
Blood Meridian movie... if any filmmaker actually has the balls to get such an adaptation off the ground! Now I wonder which actor will portray Judge Holden...