New Music Video from Lori McKenna and Dave Cobb - "1988"

Travis Tritt, Ronnie Milsap, Willie Nelson & Tony Joe White All Have New Projects On The Horizon

After a relatively slow start with new album announcements to start the year, this week certainly revved up with new album announcements from Travis Tritt, Ronnie Milsap, Willie Nelson and Tony Joe White. 

Artist: Travis Tritt

Album: Set In Stone

Label: Big Noise

Release date: May 7, 2021

Multi-Platinum selling and award-winning artist, Travis Tritt, will release a new album, Set In Stone, on May 7 and a new single, “Smoke In A Bar,” on March 5. 

Released through Big Noise Label Group and produced by Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, The Highwomen, Sturgill Simson), the new album features 11 new songs, 8 of which were co-written by Tritt. Set In Stone marks Tritt’s first original full-length studio album in over a decade.

On Set in Stone, the Grammy winner "delivers the quintessential Travis Tritt album with a touch of Americana and Roots. He pays homage to all sides of his musical personality along with the trademarks of his originality.  Opening with the rowdy “Stand Your Ground” and mixing powerful love songs like “Leave This World” with searing country rockers like the first single “Ghost Town Nation,” the new album is described by Tritt as “getting back to a no-frills classic outlaw-country sound.”"

Artist: Willie Nelson

Album: Texas Willie

Label: Sunset Blvd Records

Release date: April 9, 2021

This new project contains 20 Tracks not previously available on CD or streaming. The breadth and scope of Willie Nelson’s career is staggering. He first established himself as part of a new generation of progressive country songwriters in the early ‘60s. Here are the obscure and rarely heard demo recordings he made prior to signing to Liberty and before RCA. All of these recordings are both musically and historically significant. Includes "Man With The Blues," "Misery," "Undo The Right," "One Step Beyond," "Any Old Arms Won't Do," "Blame It On The Times," "The End Of Understanding," "Slow Down Old World," "A New Way To Die," "Home Motel," "Right From Wrong," "Slow Down Old World," "Happiness Lives Next Door," "I Feel Sorry For Him," "Where My House Lives," and more.

Artist: Ronnie Milsap

Album: A Better Word For Love

Label: Black River Entertainment

Release date: April 30, 2021

One of the preeminent songwriters and crossover artists of the 1970's and 1980's, Country Music Hall of Famer Ronnie Milsap has a brand new album forthcoming at the end of April on the Black River Entertainment label called A Better Word for Love.  It's his first album since The Duets released back in January of 2019. It includes a duet with another Hall of Famer, Mr. Vince Gill as well as a live recording of his song "Civil War."  

Artist: Tony Joe White

Album: Smoke From The Chimney

Label: Easy Eye  Sound

Release date: May 7, 2021

On May 7, Dan Auerbach’s label, Easy Eye Sound, will release the new Tony Joe White album, Smoke From The Chimney. This album is a collection of new songs that have been lovingly created from a collection of discovered Tony Joe White demos. (Tony Joe White died in 2018.) Selected by Tony Joe White’s son, Jody White, and put into the hands of Dan Auerbach to properly record them with a setting of musicians have generated 9 finished songs.

Smoke From The Chimney will be released on CD, DD, and in two separate color editions of vinyl LP (collectible orange or standard black). Tony Joe White is also remembered as the writer of the classic “Rainy Night In Georgia” tune made popular by Brook Benton.

That Nashville Sound Sunday Newsbytes: New Albums, New Videos & New Band Members

Here's hoping that things are slowly (and carefully) starting to return to some semblance of normal in your neck of the woods.  Despite all tours being shut down and many artist's album releases being delayed (Willie Nelson and The Dixie Chicks among others), news continues to come in from the country music world. 

~ That Nashville Sound updated its album release calendar. Let us know if you have additional releases to add to the list. 

~ Hannah Mulholland has left the trio Runaway June and fiddle player-extraordinaire Natalie Stovall has taken her place. Says Stovall on the move, "This has been one of the easiest and most obvious choices I’ve made thus far in my music journey. I LOVE making music in band setting and I’m so excited to get to create and perform and spread joy with @runawayjuneofficial !!! As soon as we can, we will be out there on the road coming your way. And in the meantime, we will be creating music for you to hear!"

~ New music videos from the last 24 hours:

      Mo Pitney - "Mattress on the Floor"

      Levi Hummon - "Wedding Dress"

~ Mo Pitney is releasing a new album on August 14th via Curb Records called Ain't Looking Back. “I wanted to be completely open-minded while recording this album,” Pitney says. “It was important for me to meld all my influences of the past that represent who I am as an artist today, hopefully to make one complete thought and to make something new. The end goal was to shut out all other voices, close our eyes, and create something that came from the heart. I’m looking forward to taking this body of work that is completely me and sharing it with the world. I’m excited to see people’s reactions.”

~ After the strong #1 debut release "I Hope" from Gabby Barrett, it's encouraging to hear that she's got her debut album called Goldmine coming out on June 19. "I am so excited that my first album is finally complete,” shares Barrett. “I’ve been writing for this project for almost two years, pulling together who I am as an artist and working hard with my team to make this album an expression of that. To see it come together like this feels amazing and is such a huge blessing. I’m so excited for June 19 – can’t wait for you to hear it!”


~ Another promising album will be coming out on July 24 from one of country music's most respected songwriters. Home and the people who make it have captivated Lori McKenna for years. Over the last three decades, as she became a wife and mother of five, she has also emerged as one of the most respected, prolific singer-songwriters in popular music. Her 2016 release The Bird and the Rifle netted three Grammy nominations, along with Americana Music Association nods––all firsts for McKenna as an artist. Then, she made history: In 2016, she became the first woman ever to win the Country Music Association’s Song of the Year two years in a row thanks to co-writing Little Big Town’s “Girl Crush” and penning Tim McGraw’s no. 1 “Humble and Kind” solo. Both songs also clinched back-to-back Grammy wins for Best Country Song. In 2017, she became the Academy of Country Music’s first female Songwriter of the Year. The Tree, her eleventh studio album, was nominated for the 2019 Americana Awards Album of the Year. 2020 brings a new record for McKenna, The Balladeer, produced by Dave Cobb.

Dillon Carmichael To Drop New EP I Do For You On Oct. 18

Artist: Dillon Carmichael

Album: I Do For You

Label: Riser House Records

Release date: October 18, 2019

Dillon Carmichael, the new up-and-coming baritone and former security guard at the Grand Ole Opry from Riser House Records, will be following up his critically-acclaimed 2018 debut album, Hell on an Angel, with an EP on 10/18 titled I Do For You.

In an interview with the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Carmichael says, "“I Do for You,” I wrote that song about four or five years ago about my co-writer Jimmy Melton and his wife. That’s what inspired the song, but I now relate to that song myself in my relationship. When I wrote it, I didn’t have a relationship. That song has had I think now four different versions recorded — there’s a slow version, there’s a faster version, there’s a little more of a rock version and there’s the version that is now very ’90s country, uptempo. But there’s been a lot of different versions of it, and I believe that songs have a life of their own. It just had to take a few years for this song to come out, but I know that this song is very, very special." 

While his debut album was produced by Dave Cobb, Carmichael has a different producer helming his second project.  "It’s a different producer by the name of Phil O’Donnell, who also produced Craig Morgan, just to name one of a few. In comparison to the album stylistically, you’re going to more find more tempo in this album. Mainly from my perspective, the added tempo feel to the new album is strictly for the live show’s purposes. I take my live show very, very serious and the one thing that my live show is lacking is tempo. So we focused on that on this new record when there wasn’t so much tempo on the first album. It’s still very much the country and Southern rock influence, just a little more tempo and a different production style as well."

Along with “99 Problems” — which draws its title inspiration from the Jay Z song and was written by Dan Isbell, Rhett Akins, and Casey Beathard — the EP includes a song that Carmichael wrote (the title track “I Do for You”), and a Chris Stapleton composition, “Feel That Way Again,” co-written with Brice Long.

Track listing:
I Do For You
99 Problems (Fish Ain't One)
It's Your Fault
Hung Up On You
Feel That Way Again

Dave Cobb Produces Upcoming 5/31 Release For Robert Randolph & The Family Band

Artist: Robert Randolph & The Family Band
Album: Brighter Days

Label: Provogue/Mascot Label Group

Release date: May 31, 2019

Robert Randolph and the Family Band announced today that they will release their new studio album, Brighter Days, on May 31st, 2019. A preorder for the album and a lyric video for the first single, “Second Hand Man”, are live as of today as well. Randolph chose to work with producer Dave Cobb on Brighter Days who is best known for his work with new country stars like Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, Brandi Carlile, and Jason Isbell.

The first three songs of Brighter Days are a full dive back to Randolph’s gospel roots, starting with lead track “Baptise Me”, a joyous romp of a song that makes a direct connection between religious and musical ecstasy and salvation. “We wrote ‘Baptize Me’ the first day in the studio. It’s really a love story, about an all-round love: for each other, for our audience, for our church background, for the music we love and for our fans. All of these songs kind of harken back to how we started, to being known as this musical family band that comes from the church and appeals to rock, blues, gospel and soul music audiences. We wanted that good gospel, blues, R&B feel, because that’s where we started and it’s good to not only remind people of that but to actively remember it ourselves.”

“Dave Cobb is just a guy who likes to record good music and good songs,” says Randolph. “He wanted to do something that was fun but it also gives you a gospel feeling. He knows the history of our band, coming from church and giving that fun church feeling to people.

“The Family Band” Is not just a name meant to evoke connections of togetherness. They are an actual family; the group that supports Randolph is anchored by his cousins, bassist Danyel Morgan and drummer Marcus Randolph and his sister, vocalist Lenesha Randolph. Given his goals for the album, it’s fitting that the lone cover song Robert selected for the collection comes from Pops Staples and the Staples Singers, one of gospel’s greatest musical families, who seamlessly crossed over to secular R&B success with inspirational songs like “Respect Yourself” and “I’ll Take You There.” Their “Simple Man” is a deep, contemplative blues, its pensive nature amplified by Randolph’s signature weeping pedal steel guitar lines.

“When you think about Stax music and a lot of music from the 70s, especially like the Staples Singers, it was inspirational and you danced you had a good time. That’s what we really wanted to hone in on here: let’s sound good and have a natural good time that will bring listeners along. All of the music that we played in the beginning was what we would play in church. We just turned it into long jams.

Producer Cobb is renowned for his vocal work and has often said that the voice comes first for him so it’s no surprise that he helped coax out some of Randolph’s best, deepest, most nuanced singing on the nine songs where he takes the lead. It is a little surprising, however just how simple Cobb’s “secret” really was: just be yourself.

“Over the years I’ve learned how to write these songs that make you feel kind of spiritual and have the gospel roots, just like the great music of people like the Four Tops, Temptations and Ray Charles. It all comes from the same place. We don’t want to sound like them – or like anybody – but that’s the feeling we want to evoke.”

Shooter Jennings To Release New Dave Cobb-Produced Album In August

Artist: Shooter Jennings
Album: Shooter
Label: Low Country/Elektra
Release date: August 10, 2018

Dave Cobb-produced, the new album Shooter is one that Jennings calls his "Bocephus" record.  "I was looking at country music and looking at my place in it and I had a different perspective after doing Countach," he tells Rolling Stone Country. "Nobody is cutting a honky-tonk Hank Williams Jr. record right now. That is still missing from country and that's what I and a lot of people want to hear. Everything is so politically divisive and everybody wants a break from that s**t, and it's that downhome attitude that this music was born out of."

1. "Bound Ta Git Down"
2. "Do You Love Texas?"
3. "Living In A Minor Key"
4. "D.R.U.N.K."
5. "Shades & Hues"
6. "I'm Wild & My Woman Is Crazy"
7. "Fast Horses & Good Hideouts"
8. "Rhinestone Eyes"
9. "Denim & Diamonds"

New Music Video From The Oak Ridge Boys with "Brand New Star"- New Album To Hit In March

Country Music Hall of Fame members, Grand Ole Opry members, and five-time GRAMMY winning group, The Oak Ridge Boys announce the release of their Lightning Rod Records forthcoming project 17th Avenue Revival, produced by critically-acclaimed producer Dave Cobb on March 16. This is the group’s second project with Cobb, who produced the Oaks’ celebrated The Boys Are Back album released in 2009.
 
“Having been in The Oak Ridge Boys for almost 52 years,” says Duane Allen, “it can be difficult for me to imagine a place where we have not been. However, Dave Cobb had that vision, and the result is 17th Avenue Revival.”

“Old roads turned into new roads on this album,” adds Oaks’ member Joe Bonsall.

For the new project, Cobb’s vision for the group was to dig way back into their roots of gospel music. But a different kind of gospel. One that took a hard look at the early days of rock and roll, which was influenced by spiritual, or black gospel.

Under Cobb’s direction, they touched on uncharted territory—and for a long-tenured act like The Oak Ridge Boys, that’s saying something. Somewhat retro, yet new and fresh at the same time, there was no vocal stacking and very few overdubs. For two of the songs, the Boys gathered around one microphone and let the harmonies shine, just as Dave Cobb had planned initially.

“Legendary Studio A on 17th Avenue South became a special, almost spiritual place, and for a few weeks it served as a beacon of creativity,” says Allen. The result is a recording that will go down in history, for old and new fans alike.

“Dave brought music with spirit and a magical feel to the studio. It became a mental, emotional, physical and spiritual revival for The Oak Ridge Boys,” says the groups’ William Lee Golden.

“17th Avenue Revival is something we believe our fans will love,” adds bass singer Richard Sterban.
 
Track Listing:
1. Brand New Star (Aaron Raitiere & Mando Saenz)
2. There Will Be Light (Jamey Johnson, Larry Shell & Buddy Cannon)
3. God’s Got It (Charlie Jackson)
4. I’d Rather Have Jesus (Rhea Miller & George Beverly Shea)
5. Walk In Jerusalem (Traditional /Public Domain)
6. Where He Leads Me I Will Follow (Ernest W. Blandy / Public Domain)
7. Pray To Jesus (Brandy Clark & Shane McAnally)
8. If I Die (Ashley Monroe & Vince Gill)
9. Let It Shine On Me (Vince Gill & Ashley Monroe)

That Nashville Sound Thursday Newsbytes: Keith Urban, Dierks Bentley, Lennon Stella & More

The labels are just now coming out of their normal Thanksgiving to New Years hibernation and the proverbial Hot Stove of country music is heating up with news about new projects and artist signings.

- Lennon Stella (of Lennon and Maisy and CMT's Nashville television show) has a signed a record deal with RECORDS’ newly-established joint venture with Columbia Records and plans a solo album out later in the year.

- Dierks Bentley released a new music video for his song, "Woman, Amen." 

- Liberty will be Lindi Ortega's highly anticipated new album following the critical acclaim of her previous release Faded Gloryville and Til the Goin' Gets Gone. Due out on March 30, 2018, Liberty was recorded in East Nashville, TN, the album is produced by Skylar Wilson (Justin Townes Earle, Rayland Baxter) with Steelism as the backing band and Country Music Hall of Fame member Charlie McCoy on harmonica and vibraphone.

- John Oates (of Hall of Oates) released the rootsy song "Miss the Mississippi and You."

- Keith Urban's yet-to-be-given-a-release-date next album will be called Graffiti U.

- Old Crow Medicine Show have had Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton) produce their next album called Volunteer and out on April 20.

- Caitlyn Smith unveiled her new music video for her powerhouse vocal song "Tacoma."

Hear It Here: Shooter Jennings & Friends (including Musgraves, Kristofferson, Benson & More) - "Do You Love Texas?"

Country renegade Shooter Jennings has called on many of his country peers to help Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey’s destructive 2017 landfall. He has released a new track called “Do You Love Texas?” which will raise funds for the Rebuild Texas Fund and features backing vocals from ace artists Kacey Musgraves, Kris Kristofferson, Randy Rogers, Jason Boland, Ray Benson, and Whiskey Myers.

The idea came about when Jennings, 38, was in the studio with Music City power producer Dave Cobb in the days before Harvey hit Houston. “Dave and I are like little kids in the studio. When nobody else is around we say goofy, kid things to each other. Some of our greatest collaborations came from ideas like that. Dave turned to me and said, ‘Hey man, Texas loves you. We need to write a song for Texas.’ I looked at Dave and sang, ‘Do you love Texas?’ And he said ‘Hell yeah!’ And I sang ‘So do I.’ And the rest of it fell right into place. We had a great time crafting a song that playfully talks about why Texas is so much damn fun.”

 

Ram Trucks donated the first $25,000 towards the cause in conjunction with the song's release.

  

That Nashville Sound's Best Albums of 2016

For those that follow this site on a semi-regular basis, you recognize that we cast a very wide net with our definition of country music. The genres of traditional classic, bluegrass, Americana, red-dirt, pop-country and even a little Delta blues make it across these pages. Hell, we even give some print to the bro-country movement sweeping the FM dial. But for the most part, it isn’t that proverbial radio dial that is producing what That Nashville Sound considers to be the finest music released thus far this year.

Before I get commentary about how we consciously exclude any modern trends or mainstream artists, let it be known that they represent on the list as well. But clearly the finest music being released thus far is far from the party-first summer dirt road anthems that are claiming to be more country than you. No, these artists are releasing deep lyric-first songs with drama. They make you feel. Pleasure. Pain. Happy. Sad. They tell stories that, like a great movie, run the gamut of emotions and make you stop and take notice. And there have been some fantastic releases so far.

Here's a list of our favorite albums over the last few years for comparison:

2007 - Alison Krauss & Robert Plant - Raising Sand
2008 - Lee Ann Womack - Call Me Crazy
2009 - Eric Church - Carolina
2010 - Zac Brown Band - You Get What You Give
2011 - Pistol Annies - Hell on Heels
2012 - Marty Stuart - Nashville Volume 1- Tear The Woodpile Down
2013 - Brandy Clark - 12 Stories
2014 - Don Williams - Reflections
2015 - Chris Stapleton - Traveler

There will certainly be some names on here that you don’t immediately recognize. I encourage you to track them down and sample some of their music. I promise you will not be disappointed in the least. Without further ado… That Nashville Sound’s Best Albums of 2016.

1. Ryan Beaver - RX - "This album is titled Rx because these songs are like medicine to me," Ryan Beaver says of his consistently compelling new release. "Making this record was so much fun, and so therapeutic. These songs serve as a prescription for getting excited about music and life. And if they're like medicine for me, maybe they will be for the listeners."

Indeed, the 12-song set, the Texas-bred, Nashville-based singer-songwriter's third longplayer, offers a potent mix of haunting emotional depth and resonant melodic craft. His insightful, infectious compositions and deeply expressive voice honor the artist's deep country roots, while transcending the genre's stylistic boundaries to incorporate a widescreen sense of drama that's anchored by his lifelong love for raw, gritty rock 'n' roll.

The resulting album, which the artist co-produced with longtime compadres Jeremy Spillman and Ryan Tyndell, makes it abundantly clear why Ryan Beaver has already been widely acclaimed as an artist to watch. Rolling Stone recently named him one of "10 New Country Artists You Need to Know," and he's received acclaim from the likes of Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe, Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves and Lee Ann Womack, with whom he's toured as an opening act.

The surging, anthem "Dark," Rx's opening track and emotional centerpiece, makes it clear why Beaver's work has generated so much excitement. A startlingly direct declaration of emotional perseverance, it's a powerful anthem of hope and survival in the face of loss and disappointment. A comparable level of emotional gravity powers such memorable tracks as "Rum & Roses," "Habit," "When This World Ends" and the stirring album-closer "If I Had A Horse." The artist reveals a more humorous attitude on "Fast" and "Vegas," and pays tribute to one of his creative role models with "Kristofferson," which he prefaces with a section of Kris Kristofferson's own "Jesus Was A Capricorn."

2. Brandy Clark - Big Day In A Small Town
3. Aubrie Sellers - New City Blues
4. Dave Cobb - Southern Family
5. David Nail - Fighter
6. Lori McKenna- The Bird & The Rifle
7. Jack Ingram - Midnight Motel
8. Jon Pardi - California Sunrise
9. Charles Kelley - The Driver
10. Brothers Osborne - Pawn Shop
11. Darrell Scott - Couchville Sessions
12. Margo Price - Midwestern Farmer's Daughter
13. Brent Cobb - Shine On Rainy Day
14. Kree Harrison - This Old Thing
15. Mo Pitney - Behind This Guitar
16. Aaron Lewis - Sinner
17. Frankie Ballard - El Rio
18. Bradley Walker - Call Me Old-Fashioned
19. Joey + Rory -Hymns- Songs That Are Important To Us (tie)
      Joey + Rory - To Joey With Love (Soundtrack)
20. William Michael Morgan - Vinyl
21. Cam - Untamed (Yes, officially it was a late 2015 release, but it didn't get in the ears until early 2016)
22. Josh Kelley - New Lane Road
23. Buddy Miller  - Cayamo: Sessions at Sea
24. Becky Warren - War Surplus
25. Sarah Darling - Dream Country
26. Jamie Floyd - Sunshine and Rainbows
27. Cody Jinks - I'm Not The Devil
28. Vince Gill - Down To My Last Bad Habit
29. Jenny Gill - The House Sessions
30. Henningsens - World's On Fire
31. Wynonna and the Big Noise - Wynonna and the Big Noise
32. Maggie Rose - The Variety Show Vol. 1
33. Cody Johnson - Gotta Be Me
34. Mark Chesnutt - Tradition Lives
35. Johnny Cash - Unchained In A Rusty Cage
36. Craig Morgan - A Whole Lot More To Me
37. Marc Broussard - S.O.S. 2: Save Our Soul: Soul On A Mission
 

Lori McKenna Unveils Her Dave-Cobb Produced Project, The Bird & The Rifle

Artist: Lori McKenna
Album: The Bird & The Rifle
Release date: July 29

Fresh off her GRAMMY win for writing Little Big Town's "Girl Crush" and her number one with Tim McGraw's "Humble and Kind," Lori McKenna is back with her own material with the Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Mary Chapin Carpenter) produced The Bird & The Rifle.

The Stoughton, Massachusetts native on working with Cobb, "when I went in to meet him and he reminded me of one of my brothers," McKenna says with a laugh. "Did you ever meet somebody that you don't know at all and they feel like they could be in your family? That's how I instantly felt with him."

1. Wreck You (Lori McKenna, Felix McTeigue)
2. The Bird & the Rifle (McKenna, Troy Verges, Caitlyn Smith)
3. Giving Up On Your Hometown (McKenna)
4. Halfway Home (McKenna, Barry Dean)
5. Humble & Kind (McKenna)
6. We Were Cool (McKenna)
7. Old Men Young Women (McKenna, Dean, Luke Laird)
8. All These Things (McKenna, Liz Rose)
9. Always Want You (McKenna, Rose, Hillary Lindsey)
10. If Whiskey Were a Woman (McKenna)

 

New Music Video From Brent Cobb - "Down Home"

Hear It Here- Zac Brown's "Grandma's Garden"

“Grandma’s Garden” is the latest track unveiled from Southern Family—a new compilation produced and conceived by two-time Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb—which will be released March 18 on Low Country Sound/Elektra Records. The project also includes Morgane Stapleton with Chris Stapleton’s “You Are My Sunshine” Anderson East’s “Learning,” Miranda Lambert’s “Sweet By and By” and John Paul White’s “Simple Song" among others.
 

Mary Chapin Carpenter Teams With Producer Dave Cobb On Upcoming May Album Release

Artist: Mary Chapin Carpenter
Album: The Things That We Are Made Of
Label: Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers
Release date: May 6, 2016

The Things That We Are Made Of, the new full-length album by singer/songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter, will be released May 6 on Lambent Light Records via Thirty Tigers. Produced by 2016 Producer of the Year Grammy-nominee Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton), the album features eleven new songs, including the lead track “Something Tamed Something Wild,” which can be heard/streamd via Soundcloud below.

The Things That We Are Made Of was recorded at Nashville’s Sound Emporium and Low Country Sound studios during the spring and summer of 2016. In addition to Carpenter (vocals, electric/acoustic guitar), the album features Cobb (electric/acoustic/gut string guitar, percussion, Moog, Mellotron), Annie Clements (bass), Brian Allen (bass), Chris Powell (drums, percussion), Mike Webb (piano, B3 organ, reed organ, Mellotron, Fender Rhodes) and Jimmy Wallace (piano, B3 organ).

Of the album, Carpenter comments, “Working with Dave felt great from the first day of our sessions. He is always willing to try something new, believes that ‘yes’ is the only answer, and surrounds himself with wonderfully talented and generous musicians; by the end of the project, I felt as if I was a part of a new family.”

Cobb adds, “I wanted to work with Mary Chapin because very few people can cut with words like she can. She’s an absolute poet and legend. I was so happy to collaborate on this album together."