A few months later, Baggetta is back with equally heavy tourmates Mike Watt — Minutemen, jamming econo, flannel shirts — and Stephen Hodges — Tom Waits, Mavis Staples — as MSSV.

He was equally influenced by jazz and funk, and his current post-genre power trio mssv, with Mike Baggetta and Stephen Hodges, defies all categorizations. But he still embraces the do-it-yourself ...