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Eddie From Ohio (as is usually noted) is not from Ohio, but the group (another NoVa quartet) is all over the adult folk-rock map on its new album, I Rode Fido Home: “Miss Fritchie” recalls Workingman’s Dead, while “Catchers Drummers Anchormen” suggests latter-day James Taylor. Some of the band’s material is a little too cute or folksy—that Miss Fritchie is indeed Frederick’s flag-flying Civil War heroine—but the best songs have a gravity that seems more Anglo-Celtic than American. That has much to do with the vocals of one of the group’s lead singers, Julie Murphy, whose readings of songs like “This My Town” provide most of the album’s highlights. The band plays Saturday at the Bayou, and Fido is $17.50 postpaid from Virginia Soul Records, P.O. Box 7431, McLean, VA 22106.