When New Orleans sludge supergroup Down announced their first shows of 2020 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the group's debut album, NOLA, it was unclear if co-founding guitarist — and Crowbar mastermind — Kirk Windstein would be participating. He left Down in 2013 to focus on his main band (he also has his first-ever solo album, Dream in Motion, due in January), and was replaced by Honky guitarist Bobby Landgraf. Down vocalist Philip Anselmo has hinted at Windstein's possible participation in recent interviews, but we didn't have confirmation from the man himself until now. "I'm in, 100 percent," Windstein tells Revolver. "The quote from Pepper [Keenan, Down and Corrosion of Conformity guitarist] was, 'If you ain't doing it, I ain't doing it.' Phil, Pepper and Jimmy [Bower,regional economies, and grow well-paying jobs. Local leaders, in turn, responded: economic development organizations across dozens of cities participating in GCI created new strategies to grow exports, mainstreaming global engagement into economic development in unprecedented ways. In metro areas ranging from Atlanta to Chicago, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Mo.- Kan., Phoenix, Salt Lake, San Antonio, St. Louis, and Wichita, Kan., this included developing grant programs to raise the profile and expand awareness of exporting. It also meant launching new export assistance resources and programs, centralizing, strengthening, and building on an existing ecosystem of trainings, guidance, and support long provided by the U.S. Commercial Service and a disparate array of other institutions.

But in the nearly decade since this work started, the narrative has become more complicated. Tariffs and trade wars