My Getaway is the full-length debut album from Dustin Arbuckle & The Damnations. The record features songs written primarily since the group's inception in 2017 and taps into the collective's rich confluence of musical influences, including various strands of blues, rock and jazz. Joining Arbuckle on the recording are bassist Mark Foley, guitarist Brandon Hudspeth and drummer Kendall Newby. (Caleb Drummond performs bass duties on three tracks.) Arbuckle, who spent more than a decade collaborating with guitarist Aaron Moreland in the band Moreland & Arbuckle, says that the new album serves as a kind of calling card, demonstrating the unit's musical diversity and roots-driven sound. He spoke with KMUW about the album from his home in Wichita. When did this material start coming together? We started writing some of the songs as early as the summer of 2017, right after the band came together. But over the course of about a year and a half, we got the group of songs that wound up