Jeremy Pinnell - Ties Of Blood And Affection (CD)

Jeremy Pinnell investigates his most challenging chapter yet: adulthood. When Jeremy Pinnell released OH/KY in the summer of 2015 to stunned acclaim, it felt like an entire career compressed into one knock-out album. This unassuming northern Kentucky singer-songwriter sauntered and ripped through ten instant country classics that tracked as so confident and comfortable that it could have been mistaken for a seasoned musician's creative peak. The songs themselves, reverent of Americana's most enduring traditions, presented the man's scope - his misadventures, loves, failures, and contradictions.If OH/KY was the self-assured introduction of an unconventional new talent, his 2017 album Ties of Blood and Affection presents a canny lateral move. Instead of doubling down on the stark themes and values of his debut, this sophomore album finds Pinnell finding comfort in his own skin and achieving the redemption only hinted at in his previous batch of haunted songs. Here Pinnell joyfully embrac