Artist: Josh Abbott Band
Album: Front Row Seat
Bitrate: 241kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Thirty Tigers
Genre: Country
Size: 100.45 megs
PlayTime: 0h 55min 14sec total
Rip Date: 2015-11-15
Store Date: 2015-11-06
Track List:
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01. While I'm Young 3:20
02. I've Been Known 4:03
03. Live It While You Got It 2:47
04. Wasn't That Drunk (With Carly 3:43
Pearce)
05. Kiss You Good 2:33
06. If It Makes You Feel Good 3:39
07. Crazy Things 3:25
08. Front Row Seat 3:46
09. Kisses We Steal 3:24
10. Born To Break Your Heart 3:21
11. Ghosts 4:15
12. This Isn't Easy (Her Song) 3:28
13. A Loss Of Memory 1:26
14. Amnesia 3:33
15. Autumn 4:11
16. Anonymity 4:20
Release Notes:
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Grab the tissues for Josh Abbott BandÆs new album Front Row Seat. The 16-track
release follows the span of a relationship, which includes the excitement of new
love, watching it slowly bloom and the often heartbreaking and complicated end.
Frontman Josh Abbott opens up to Entertainment Weekly about the bandÆs fourth
studio album which stems from his divorce last year. He explains that while the
stories are his, things didnÆt happen exactly how they materialize within the
songs between Abbott and his first wife.
ôThe stories are mine but theyÆre not necessarily hers and mine,ö Josh Abbott
tells EW. ôI havenÆt made a record that pities me. That was a time in my life
that IÆm not proud of and have moved on from.ö
Abbott goes on to explain that he wants people to hear the honesty in his songs
and be able to relate to each track.
ôI know thereÆs going to be a natural reflection on me and how the album mirrors
my life,ö Abbott says in a press release. ôBut IÆd like to think that this is
really a story that is so common that everyone relates to it and that itÆs not
just about me. Hopefully people can listen to it and feel like itÆs about them.ö
The album takes place like a film with five acts in the storyline of AbbottÆs
relationship. Front Row Seat begins with ôWhile IÆm Young,ö a song that paints
the picture of AbbottÆs college life as he lived in the moment. The song
embodies the fast-paced, fun live show fans have come to know and love from Josh
Abbott Band with plenty of hand-clapped rhythms and foot-stomping banjo
accompaniment.
While ôWasnÆt That Drunkö features beautiful vocals from Carly Pearce and
continues the lightheartedness of the album with memorable banjo and fiddle
accompaniment, ôIf It Makes You Feel Goodö and its soaring melodies are easy to
envision in a live setting as is most of the songs within Act 2 and Act 3. It is
in Act 4, however, which leads with the devastating ôBorn to Break Your Heart,ö
where the tissues are needed. Detailing the difficult end of a relationship,
when Abbott sings ôHotels and highways just ainÆt workin,Æö you can hear the
devastation.
ôGhostsö follows and is the first song Abbott wrote after his wife left him.
With slowed, ethereal music and vocals, Abbott says he cried while recording the
last chorus. Words like ôGoodbye is the hardest part / I was supposed to hold
your heart / Like the grains of sand through my hands, it fell apart,ö
adequately get the emotion across.
Nearing the final act Abbott finds some relief. ôThis IsnÆt Easy (Her Song),ö
written from the perspective of his wife, remains gut-wrenching but at the same
time acknowledges that healing has to happen by not speaking to each other.
Where the spoken word of ôA Loss of Memoryö remains suspenseful, ôAmnesiaö
continues to darken the mood as Abbott laments of the unfortunate circumstances
of seeing his ex every night in his head as he turns off the lights. On final
song, ôAnonymity,ö he still feels alone but there is solace on the acoustic
track. A catharsis of sorts, Abbott has come out the other end of his divorce a
stronger man.
ôWhen youÆre moving on from somebody, even once youÆve accepted it, you just
feel alone,ö Abbott says. ôThatÆs the reason the acoustic track ends the album.ö