Artist: Gill Landry
Album: Love Rides A Dark Horse
Bitrate: 216kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Loose Records
Genre: Country
Size: 66.46 megs
PlayTime: 0h 40min 50sec total
Rip Date: 2017-12-02
Store Date: 2017-10-06
Track List:
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01. Denver Girls 4:09
02. Bird In A Cage 5:25
03. Berlin 4:24
04. Broken Hearts & Things We'll 4:32
Never Know
05. The One Who Won The War 3:39
06. The Only Game In Town 3:54
07. Scripted Love 4:32
08. The Woman You Are 5:12
09. The Real Deal Died 5:03
Release Notes:
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Mercurial Americana troubadour Gill Landry follows 2015's excellent eponymous
effort with Love Rides a Dark Horse, a brooding nine-song set that, on the
surface at least, is as down and out as anything he's released so far. Largely
written during a lengthy solo tour in the aftermath of a failed relationship,
Dark Horse has all the hallmarks of a breakup album, yet the singer also
describes it as a "map out of the darkness." A lifelong rambler with a history
of busking around the country, Landry's involvement as a member of Old Crow
Medicine Show brought him to a handful of roots music zeniths, including
induction into the Grand Ole Opry and a Grammy Award. Still, he retained his
lone-wolf image during his tenure with the band, releasing solo albums that
mixed elements of Dylanesque folk balladry with Tom Waits' grizzled darkness and
Leonard Cohen's solitary poeticism. The more straightforward tone of Landry's
previous outing continues here, to a degree, as he sifts through the emotional
wreckage on the bittersweet "Broken Hearts & Things We'll Never Know" and the
lyrically haunted yet soaring centerpiece, "The One Who Won the War." Given the
nature of the subject matter, the tempos are slow and the tone is expectedly
maudlin, but it's a bailiwick Landry always felt comfortable in, and his weary
baritone is as soothing as it is desolate. Having previously shed some of the
lonesome drifter persona that marked his earlier work, he returns to the
condition from a more honest and authentic place, turning in a dark gem.