Not everyone sat around watching Netflix during quarantine. Phoenix-based band The Sugar Thieves sat around plucking instruments and writing songs – so many tunes, in fact, that the group released two new albums of all-original material this summer. “The world needs music,” singer Meridith Moore says, “and they need it now.” The Sugar Thieves’ sound is aptly described as “American roots music” – a blues-infused sonic gumbo of genres including country, folk, gospel, jazz and...