Release: Jimbo Mathus & Andrew Bird - These 13

Jimbo Mathus & Andrew Bird - These 13

Release date: Friday, March 5th 2021

Thirty Tigers) Bertus Distributrie. 

These 13 is a little bit folk, a little bit gospel, a little bit bluesy, a little bit Hank, a little bit hill country, but most emphatically, it is all heart. Andrew and Jimbo have climbed the height of their creative ladders in this collection of soul-strung songs, both lyrically and musically, a synchronicity between the two that feels joined in some special imaginative place that can only be visited by the best of songwriters. I feel cleansed when listening to this album,

exhausted by the sensory hustle of all the white noise, These 13 allows me to settle, to immerse myself in the serenity of original sound, written by original artists, delivered with a kind of feeling that makes you want to roll down the windows and ride or watch the sun go down or take off your shoes and walk across a muddy creekbank. From the wonderful melancholy and soulful beginnings of “Poor Lost Souls,” to the old country echoes of “Burn the Honkey Tonk” to the getty-up and hope of “Sweet Oblivion,” 

this album moves me from one place to another with careful hands. In some ways, These 13 makes me wonder things I’ve always wondered about music – what the hell happened to it? But I think I know the answer. Nothing. Nothing has happened to it. It is right here. It lives and breathes with strings and keys and vocals, all stretched to their most hurtful and redeeming places. Nothing has happened to music except that you have to know where to find it, and Andrew and Jimbo are leading us to the place, right smackdab in the middle of These 13 is where we can all sit together and enjoy.

Tracklist:

1. Poor Lost Souls04:16
2. Sweet Oblivion03:13
3. Encircle My Love03:42
4. Beat Still My Heart03:57
5. Red Velvet Rope03:14
6. High John03:52
7. Stonewall04:11
8. Bright Sunny Southland01:05
9. Bell Witch03:11
10. Dig Up The Hatchet02:34
11. Jack O Diamonds02:44
12. Burn The Honkey Tonk02:23
13. Three White Horses06:33

 

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