Donato was working on his third full-length album, Horizons, with his band Cosmic Country at Sputnik Sound in Nashville. Donato was working on his third full-length album, Horizons, with his band Cosmic Country at Sputnik Sound in Nashville. And it’s the sharpest presentation yet of his own signature sound, which occupies the sweet spot where Americana, outlaw country, modern country, and jam-band music meet. “Robert’s is truly the home of traditional country music,” Donato explains. There’s a lot of guitar players in Nashville who’ll do, say, a Phrygian dominant substitution over a dominant-seventh chord on a honky-tonk tune.