For the last few months I've been hung up on one track in particular - a lo-fi cover of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land," re-imagined as a song about moving on after a failed relationship, performed as a duet, and written by a complete unknown: Country Death - This Life is My Life.

On its face there's nothing exceptional about the song - the production value is zero, the lyrics are simple, the artists aren't particularly skilled, the subject matter is mundane, and the fact that it's merely a re-contextualized classic folk song means that it could never be considered particularly original. But each and every one of those flaws, in this special case, seems to be a reason I enjoy it more - as if they make the song more authentic or genuine. Perhaps those aren't even the words I should be using. Regardless, it is as though the song bypasses the usual critical lens with which I enjoy most music and goes straight to some low-level system of emotional processing that directly transcodes the song into vivid feeling - and it feels very real and... present. Not like a message that is communicated from artist to listener, but as though it's a real situation and I am suddenly in its midst.

bashless (word?)

I think what you're looking for here would be "unabashed."