Artist: John Moreland
Album: Big Bad Luv
Bitrate: 239kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: 4AD
Genre: Country
Size: 83.97 megs
PlayTime: 0h 46min 44sec total
Rip Date: 2017-05-13
Store Date: 2017-05-05
Track List:
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01. Sallisaw Blues 3:57
02. Old Wounds 4:11
03. Every Kind Of Wrong 4:30
04. Love Is Not The Answer 5:28
05. Lies I Chose To Believe 3:41
06. Amen, So Be It 3:07
07. No Glory In Regret 4:56
08. Ain't We Gold 4:01
09. Slow Down Easy 4:55
10. It Don't Suit Me (Like Before) 3:38
11. Latchkey Kid 4:20
Release Notes:
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Big Bad Luv is the fourth solo LP from Americana artist John Moreland, a
rusty-voiced troubadour from Oklahoma whose career has been picking up steam
since bursting onto the scene with a trio of releases in 2011. Initially
emerging out of Tulsa's punk and hardcore scene, Moreland shifted toward
alt-country in the mid-2000s and made his name backed first by the Black Gold
Band then by his second group, the Dust Bowl Souls, before eventually going
solo. He's bounced around with a couple of labels and landed a handful of songs
on FX's Sons of Anarchy, but Big Bad Luv marks his debut for revered U.K.
alternative label 4AD. With his amiable heartland feel and Springsteen-ian tone,
Moreland is a bit of an odd match with the label better known for records by
Cocteau Twins and Pixies, but perhaps a change of perspective will bring new
fans to his honest American songcraft. Recorded in Little Rock, Arkansas and
backed by a band of long-tenured Tulsa players, Moreland produced Big Bad Luv
himself before sending it off to studio veteran Tchad Blake (Robert Plant, the
Black Keys) to mix. From the crackling barroom energy of "Sallisaw Blues" to
more subdued fare like the fingerpicked "No Glory in Regret," he warmly delivers
tales of love, sorrow, redemption in the no-frills style he's become known for.
While it's stylistically no great departure from his earlier output, it feels
like the logical next destination on his journey.