On The Widow's Walk - The White Buffalo - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

It’s good to have him back! Jake Smith, aka The White Buffalo, returns with this, his sixth studio album and the follow up to 2017’s ‘Darkest Darks, Lightest Lights’. It’s also the debut worldwide album release on Snakefarm Records, a young label within the Universal Music Group, with a focus on roots, country rock, blues & Americana. This album is a great way to introduce the label to the wider world.

‘On The Widow’s Walk’ is exactly the sort of record we’ve come to expect from The White Buffalo – big, narrative driven songs delivered with that strong, slightly gruff voice and a solid but not cluttered musicality that lets you hear individual instruments while appreciating the whole backing track.

Originally this recording was, apparently, planned as a concept album and the title, ‘On the Widow’s Walk’, refers to the balconies, found on buildings in American seaport towns, where wives would pace up and down waiting for news of their husbands’ safe return from sea. Not wanting to exclude tracks that didn’t fit the initial narrative Smith decided to move away from the original concept of oceans, loss and longing to make an album that’s more about a wider range of emotional responses to everything from the march of technology in ‘Cursive’ through to the complete collapse of a moral compass in the darkly dissonant ‘The Rapture’, the most intense track on the album and an adventurous choice for lead single from this recording.

Tracklist

1. Problem Solution
2. The Drifter
3. No History
4. Sycamore
5. Come On Shortly
6. Cursive
7. Faster Than Fire
8. Widow's Walk
9. River of Love and Loss
10. The Rapture
11. I Don't Know a Thing About Love
12. Widow's Walk
13. The Drifter
14. I Don't Know a Thing About Love
15. Guiding Light

Label: Snakefarm | Origin: Holland

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