{"title":"Kevin Morby Vinyl Records \u0026 CDs","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor the listener who has followed Kevin Morby across every turn, this page collects his records and CDs in one place, from early catalog to recent work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe selection runs eleven titles deep. On vinyl you will find \u003cem\u003eSinging Saw\u003c\/em\u003e on LP, \u003cem\u003eThis Is A Photograph\u003c\/em\u003e on LP, \u003cem\u003eOh My God\u003c\/em\u003e on 2xLP, \u003cem\u003eNight At The Little Los Angeles (4-Track Version)\u003c\/em\u003e on LP, and \u003cem\u003eMore Photographs (A Continuum)\u003c\/em\u003e in two pressings, including a Coke Bottle Clear LP. On CD, the catalog stretches from \u003cem\u003eSinging Saw\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOh My God\u003c\/em\u003e through \u003cem\u003eSundowner\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThis Is A Photograph\u003c\/em\u003e, and the double-disc \u003cem\u003eLittle Wide Open\u003c\/em\u003e, all on Dead Oceans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWhy buy from Relix\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eRelix has covered the intersection of American songwriting, improvisation, and roots music since 1974. That history shapes what lands in the store. Kevin Morby sits squarely in the tradition the magazine has tracked for decades, a writer whose records reward the kind of close listening Relix has always asked of its readers. Beyond catalog titles, Relix produces the Relix Sessions series, live recordings produced by Relix and pressed to vinyl on the Relix Vinyl label, which reflects the same editorial instinct that guides every shelf in this store. When a title is here, it is because it belongs here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery CD in this collection is new and sealed. Pre-order titles display a street date and ship when the label releases them. CDs ship in protective packaging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKevin Morby's records sit at the crossing of several currents worth exploring further. His catalog has natural company in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/americana-vinyl\"\u003eAmericana, Folk and Country Vinyl Records\u003c\/a\u003e collection and in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/indie-rock-pop-vinyl-cds\"\u003eIndie Rock and Pop Vinyl and CDs\u003c\/a\u003e. If the colored pressing of \u003cem\u003eMore Photographs (A Continuum)\u003c\/em\u003e caught your eye, the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/colored-vinyl\"\u003eColored Vinyl Records and Limited Variants\u003c\/a\u003e collection is the right next stop. And for live documents on wax, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/live-vinyl-albums\"\u003eLive Vinyl Albums and Records\u003c\/a\u003e covers that ground.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"kevin-morby-oh-my-god-lp-vinyl","title":"Kevin Morby – Oh My God (2-LP Vinyl)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"relix-editorial\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKevin Morby came up through the ranks of Woods and The Babies before striking out solo, and by the time Oh My God arrived in 2019, he had built a devoted following around his literate, Americana-inflected songwriting. Recorded with producer Ryan Hadlock, the album draws on gospel, folk, and rock with a sprawling ambition that suits the double-LP format naturally, giving each side room to breathe and the whole work a ceremonial weight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout his four solo albums and myriad records of various collaboration, Kevin Morby has recognized in his work the ubiquity of an apparent religious theme. Though not identifying as \"religious\" in the slightest, Morby-the globetrotting son of Kansas City who has made music while living on both coasts before recently returning to his Midwestern stomping grounds-recognizes in himself a somewhat spiritual being with a secular attitude towards the soulful. And so, in an effort to tackle that notion head-on and once-and-for-all, he sat down in his form of church-on planes and in beds-and wrote what would become his first true concept-album: the lavish, resplendent, career-best double LP Oh My God.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003c!-- TRACKLIST_START --\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide A\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. Oh My God\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. No Halo\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. Nothing Sacred \/ All Things Wild\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. OMG Rock And Roll\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide B\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. Seven Devils\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. Hail Mary\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. Piss River\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide C\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. Savannah\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. Storm (Beneath The Weather)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. Congratulations\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. I Want To Be Clean\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide D\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. Sing A Glad Song\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. Ballad Of Faye\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. O Behold\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- TRACKLIST_END --\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 656605149110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dead Oceans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4.26.19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e LP Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Broadtime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48600398987419,"sku":"83250","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/7172\/files\/packshot-kevin-morby-oh-my-god-vinyl-lp-relix.jpg?v=1779251512"},{"product_id":"kevin-morby-night-at-the-little-los-angeles-4-track-version-lp-vinyl","title":"Kevin Morby – Night At The Little Los Angeles (LP Vinyl)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"relix-editorial\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKevin Morby has long understood that the most honest recordings happen before the second-guessing starts. These 4-track sketches, laid down in a backyard shed in Kansas, predate the polished *Sundowner* sessions and capture something rawer and more instinctive, the kind of late-night home recordings that reveal an artist thinking out loud rather than performing for posterity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFriends! I am so pleased to announce A Night At The Little Los Angeles - the 4-track version of Sundowner. Recorded at home and in my back shed - aka The Little Los Angeles - in suburban Kansas during the summer and winter seasons of 2017 and 2018. This is quite simply the sound of me alone in a room with a four-track to catch my songs as they fell out of my mouth. When I later went into a proper studio to make Sundowner my goal was to capture the essence of these initial recordings, and here you will now have access to the very essence I was chasing. In many ways, this feels like a proper album to me, as it's my initial attempt to capture the Kansas sunset and put it into sound, where as Sundower was an attempt of an attempt. I love and am proud of them both, of course, but am happy to - for the first time - share this vulnerable side of my songwriting process with the public. Many of my favorite recordings have been made inside of an artist's home without regard of the outside world, but instead deep in their own world that they're creating in real time. And with that - I'd like to invite you into my own little world here and now and ask you to please... step inside of... and spend A Night At The Little Los Angeles!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003c!-- TRACKLIST_START --\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide A\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. Campfire (4-Track Version) (5:15)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. Sundowner (4-Track Version) (4:39)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. A Night At The Little Los Angeles (4-Track Version) (6:27)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. Wander (4-Track Version) (2:06)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5. Velvet Highway (4-Track Version) (3:23)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide B\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. Valley (4-Track Version) (3:34)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. Brother, Sister (4-Track Version) (4:27)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. Don't Underestimate Midwest American Sun (4-Track Version) (5:40)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. Provisions (4-Track Version) (6:04)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5. U.S. Mail (4-Track Version) (5:12)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- TRACKLIST_END --\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 656605156538\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dead Oceans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 10.8.21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e LP Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Broadtime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48600400920731,"sku":"42658","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/7172\/files\/packshot-kevin-morby-night-at-the-little-los-angeles-4-track-version-vinyl-lp-relix.jpg?v=1779251562"},{"product_id":"kevin-morby-more-photographs-a-continuum-lp-vinyl","title":"Kevin Morby – More Photographs (A Continuum) (LP Vinyl)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"relix-editorial\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Kansas City kid who came up playing bass in Woods and the Babies before striking out on his own, Kevin Morby has always treated albums as living, breathing documents rather than finished products. More Photographs deepens the Memphis-soaked world of its predecessor through reimaginings, instrumentals, and alternate angles that reward the kind of close listening vinyl naturally invites.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKevin Morby writes (and records, and imagines) at an almost incomparable clip, and his most recent album, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Is A Photograph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, studies life, time and mortality through myriad lenses. It’s a dynamic, buoyant record on big, heavy themes, so it only makes sense that Morby found he wasn’t quite done with it on its completion. More \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotographs (A Continuum)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e finds new nooks, corners and vantage points. “If \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Is A Photograph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a house that you have been living inside of,” says Morby, “then \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMore Photographs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is, perhaps, the same home just experienced differently. As if you, its inhabitant, have taken a tab of something psychedelic and now, suddenly, you’ve replaced your eyeglasses with kaleidoscopes.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003c!-- TRACKLIST_START --\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide A\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. This Is A Photograph II (2:56)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. Triumph (4:13)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. Bittersweet, Tennessee (6:14)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. Going To Prom (3:35)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5. Lion Tamer (4:38)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide B\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. A Song For Katie (4:42)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. Five Easy Pieces Revisited (3:49)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. Mickey Mantle's Autograph (5:49)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. Kingdom Of Broken Hearts (5:53)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- TRACKLIST_END --\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 656605164816\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dead Oceans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 11.10.23\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e LP Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Broadtime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48600402952347,"sku":"115208","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/7172\/files\/packshot-kevin-morby-more-photographs-a-continuum-lp-vinyl-vinyl-lp-relix.jpg?v=1779251635"},{"product_id":"kevin-morby-sundowner-cd","title":"Kevin Morby – Sundowner (CD)","description":"\u003ch3\u003eReview\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 2019's Oh My God, prolific songwriter Kevin Morby was in an existential place—just a year later, he's come back down to earth for his sixth solo set, Sundowner, a collection of songs that feels much more inward. Written a couple years ago and recorded in early 2019 before Oh My God had been released, Sundowner is perhaps Morby's most mellow album to date. The hard-driving electric guitar is largely absent, replaced by the acoustic and Morby's musings about being a \"sundowner\"—someone who looks at the sunset with a bit of melancholy, nostalgic for a day that's just ending. When Morby was first writing the songs on Sundowner, he had just moved from Los Angeles back to Kansas, where he grew up. And you can hear the ripples of that major relocation throughout. Morby's new narratives feel timeless, often pining for a lost era. And there is an element of family simplicity. The light strumming of \"A Night in Little Los Angeles\" interjects a bit of humanity into the prostitution scene in LA while opener \"Valley\" is a charged up ode to feeling a bit slighted, as Morby sings, \"They all pretend not to know me,\" while longing for a place where the stars in the sky are visible—perhaps a fitting notion written by someone who just left Los Angeles. Morby also wrestles with death throughout Sundowner, with \"Jamie\" recalling the loss of one of his best friends 10 years ago, and \"Campfire\" paying homage to Jessi Zazu of rockabilly band Those Darlins, who passed away from cancer in 2017. Morby has got range— and Sundowner continues his desire to explore new ways of filtering his life through song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e— Mike Ayers, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/relix.com\/reviews\/detail\/kevin-morby-sundowner\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRelix\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"relix-editorial\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKevin Morby has always written best when the landscape is doing half the work, and the wide, flat skies of Kansas City are all over these songs. Recorded to tape on a four-track Tascam, *Sundowner* carries the warmth and grain of something caught in real time, a collection that feels less composed than discovered, the way the best road music always does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo Whom It May Concern,\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI am here to announce that my new album, Sundowner, will be out October 16th, 2020 via Dead Oceans. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTHE WRITING: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(KANSAS CITY, KANSAS) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the winter of 2017 I moved back to my hometown of Kansas City from Los Angeles. The move was sudden and unforeseen, just as I was tying a bow on the writing process for what would become my 2019 album, Oh My God. I bought a Four Track Tascam model 424 off of an old friend to help me get to the finish line, but much to my surprise and excitement, this new piece of equipment in my all-but-bare home didn't help complete one album but rather inspire another: Sundowner. The new collection of songs came quickly and effortlessly as I did my best not to resist or refine the songs, but instead let them take shape all on their own. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs the songs kept coming I cleared out the crowded shed that was sitting dormant in my backyard and built a makeshift studio before adding drums, lead guitar and piano to complete the demos. Each day I would teach myself basic recording techniques, watching the channels illuminate and pulse as if the machine were breathing, and then emerge in the evenings as the sun was getting low: - around 5:30 in the winter, when the Kansan sunsets look icy and distant, like a pink ember inside of a display case, and 9 o'clock in the summer, when the sunsets are warm and abstract. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLanding back home felt jarring juxtaposed with a life full of chaos and adventure with my band on the road. But at the very least, I was happy to have - for the first time in my adulthood - a place to close the door, with no temptations other than to work on music and reflect on what I had built since I left. It was a new form of isolation, one I had never explored or expected to experience. Not ready to let go of the hand of the California desert, I spent the winter decorating the best I knew how; with mementos from my previous home, cactus and aloe vera and covering the walls in pinewood - immediately earning my house it's nickname, The Little Los Angeles. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTHE RECORDING: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSonic Ranch, Neve Room, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTornillo, Texas \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn January 2019 I contacted my friend and producer Brad Cook to help recreate what I had made in my shed. We chose to work in Texas; we wanted to make sure the record was done far away from any coastline, and in the heart of America. Brad played bass and some keys on the album, but beyond that he encouraged and inspired me to play almost everything else. All lead guitar, proper drums (save the drums on \"A Night At The Little Los Angeles\"), mellotron and what I believe to be the albums secret weapon - a WWII era collapsible and slightly out-of-tune pump organ - were performed by me. We did, however, bring in James Krivchenia towards the end of the session to fill out the percussion. It was an honor to work with him as he built maracas from pecans and played on the floor of the live room, adding flourish wherever he saw fit. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn the last evening of the session, after everything had wrapped, we all climbed on top of an empty water tower on the property, giving us a view in all directions. To the North you could see an endless Texas, with long wisps of cirrus clouds above the desert floor, and to the South there was Mexico, the recent detention camps only a mile beyond, with large cumulus clouds hovering over, bringing us to an ominous pause. To the West, towards the setting sun, the two families of clouds merged, holding the last light of the day in purple and orange. Below, a freight train cut the landscape in half as it whistled in the distance. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAFTER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlmost as soon as the session wrapped, I was off and away on press trips and then proper tours for Oh My God, which came out in April that same year. Sundowner sat inside of a hard drive back at Sonic Ranch and did not see the light of day, until I found myself, as did the rest of the world, stuck inside their home and in quarantine in March 2020. My second year of touring for Oh My God was cancelled. Brad, Jerry and I worked from our respective homes, sending notes back and forth as we worked alone but together to mix the album, and suddenly, just like that, Sundowner was finished. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSongs, like sunsets, are fleeting, and it's only due to a willingness and desire to catch them that you ever, if even only for a moment, grab a hold of one. When writing Sundowner, I was lucky to have had the Tascam 424 there to help capture both. Sundowner is my attempt to put the Middle American twilight - it's beauty profound, though not always immediate - into sound. It is a depiction of isolation. Of the past. Of an uncertain future. Of provisions. Of an omen. Of a dead deer. Of an icon. Of a Los Angeles themed hotel in rural Kansas. Of billowing campfires, a mermaid and a highway lined in rabbit fur. It is a depiction of the nervous feeling that comes with the sky's proud announcement that another day will be soon coming to a close as the pink light recedes and the street lamps and house lights suddenly click on. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKevin Morby, Kansas, 2020.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003c!-- TRACKLIST_START --\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. Valley (4:05)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. Brother, Sister (4:39)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. Sundowner (5:10)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. Campfire (5:21)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5. Wander (1:56)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e6. Don't Underestimate Midwest American Sun (5:23)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e7. A Night At The Little Los Angeles (7:10)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e8. Jamie (4:08)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e9. Velvet Highway (3:21)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e10. Provisions (5:35)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- TRACKLIST_END --\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 656605153124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dead Oceans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 10.16.20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e CD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Broadtime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48600403017883,"sku":"100293","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/7172\/files\/packshot-kevin-morby-sundowner-cd-relix.jpg?v=1779251422"},{"product_id":"kevin-morby-this-is-a-photograph-lp-vinyl","title":"Kevin Morby – This Is A Photograph (LP Vinyl)","description":"\u003ch3\u003eReview\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThink about the concept of a photograph: It's a snapshot a present moment that, over time, represents the past. So it's a bit fitting that Kevin Morby would title his seventh studio album This Is a Photograph; he's always mined sounds and inspiration from past folk luminaries such as Lou Reed and Bob Dylan. But the impetus for the title was Morby rooting through a box of photographs after his father collapsed in front of him and was rushed to the hospital. The pictures triggered memories and emotions that bled into the early days of the pandemic. Morby's journey led him to Memphis for a period of time shortly after, where he found solace in Stax Records, Graceland and Jeff Buckley. All of these experiences rear their heads at different points throughout Photograph—in lyrics and, at times, the soulful arrangements. The music deviates from his usual rock-and-roll tendencies, instead utilizing the piano as his primary instrument. A Photograph standout comes early on, with \"A Random Act of Kindness\"—the piano blends with strings, while Morby's vocals build up to a passionate praise of lifting up. He takes the same approach on \"Stop Before I Cry\" and \"It's Over.\" But other cuts place Morby back into the folk realms he's known for. The banjo ballad \"Bittersweet, TN,\" a standout duet with Erin Rae, finds Morby saying farewell—farewell to someone, to time, to a life. And that's the crux of This Is a Photograph. It's pieces of the past, an exploration of what it means to let go and how hard that concept truly is. Morby has become a modern-day master at exploring existential themes, but making them sound wholly relatable. This Is a Photograph achieves that goal in a truly beautiful way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e— Mike Ayers, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/relix.com\/reviews\/detail\/kevin-morby-this-is-a-photograph\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRelix\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"relix-editorial\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded in Memphis at Sam Phillips Recording, the same studio where Phillips helped birth rock and roll itself, \"This Is A Photograph\" carries the weight of that history in its bones. Morby's sixth solo album finds him wrestling with mortality, American mythology, and the fragility of the people we love most, channeling those preoccupations through arrangements that feel rooted in the soil of classic American music without being beholden to nostalgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe story begins with Kevin Morby absentmindedly flipping through a box of old family photos in the basement of his childhood home in Kansas City. Just hours before, at a family dinner, his father had collapsed in front of him and had to be rushed to the hospital. That night Morby still felt the shock and fear lodged in his bones. So he gazed at the images until one of the pictures jumped out at him: his father as a young man, proud and strong and filled with confidence, posing on a lawn with his shirt off. This was in January of 2020. As the months went on and the world dramatically changed around him, Morby felt an eerie similarity between his feelings of that night and the atmosphere of those spring days. Fear, anxiety, hope and resilience all churning together. The themes began twisting in his mind. History, trauma and the grand fight against time. Having the courage to dream, even while knowing the tragedy that often awaits those who dare to dream. While his father regained his strength, Morby meditated on these ideas. And then, he headed to Memphis. He moved into the Peabody Hotel and spent his days paying tribute and genuflecting to the dreamers he admired. In the evening, he would return to his room and document his ideas on a makeshift recording set-up, with just his guitar and a microphone. The songs, elegiac in nature, befitting all he had seen, poured out of him. Produced by Sam Cohen (who also worked on Morby's Singing Saw and Oh My God), This Is A Photograph features musical contributions from longtime staples of Morby's live band, as well as old friends and new collaborators alike. If Oh My God saw Morby getting celestial and in constant motion and Sundowner was a study in localized intent, This Is A Photograph finds Morby making an Americana paean, a visceral life and death, blood on the canvas outpouring. As Morby reminds us early on, time is undefeated. So what do we do while we're still here? 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Coming off the critical momentum of *Singing Saw* and *City Music*, this was the record where he committed fully to the big idea, letting the concept breathe across a double LP's worth of space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout his four solo albums and myriad records of various collaboration, Kevin Morby has recognized in his work the ubiquity of an apparent religious theme. Though not identifying as \"religious\" in the slightest, Morby-the globetrotting son of Kansas City who has made music while living on both coasts before recently returning to his Midwestern stomping grounds-recognizes in himself a somewhat spiritual being with a secular attitude towards the soulful. 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So it's a bit fitting that Kevin Morby would title his seventh studio album This Is a Photograph; he's always mined sounds and inspiration from past folk luminaries such as Lou Reed and Bob Dylan. But the impetus for the title was Morby rooting through a box of photographs after his father collapsed in front of him and was rushed to the hospital. The pictures triggered memories and emotions that bled into the early days of the pandemic. Morby's journey led him to Memphis for a period of time shortly after, where he found solace in Stax Records, Graceland and Jeff Buckley. All of these experiences rear their heads at different points throughout Photograph—in lyrics and, at times, the soulful arrangements. The music deviates from his usual rock-and-roll tendencies, instead utilizing the piano as his primary instrument. A Photograph standout comes early on, with \"A Random Act of Kindness\"—the piano blends with strings, while Morby's vocals build up to a passionate praise of lifting up. He takes the same approach on \"Stop Before I Cry\" and \"It's Over.\" But other cuts place Morby back into the folk realms he's known for. The banjo ballad \"Bittersweet, TN,\" a standout duet with Erin Rae, finds Morby saying farewell—farewell to someone, to time, to a life. And that's the crux of This Is a Photograph. It's pieces of the past, an exploration of what it means to let go and how hard that concept truly is. Morby has become a modern-day master at exploring existential themes, but making them sound wholly relatable. This Is a Photograph achieves that goal in a truly beautiful way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e— Mike Ayers, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/relix.com\/reviews\/detail\/kevin-morby-this-is-a-photograph\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRelix\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"relix-editorial\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded in Memphis at Sam Phillips Recording, the same studio where Sun Records history was made, \"This Is A Photograph\" finds Morby channeling the weight of mortality and American mythology through a sonic landscape that feels rooted in the city itself. The Kansas City-raised songwriter has always worn his influences openly, but here the stakes are deeply personal, turning a near-loss into something expansive and communal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe story begins with Kevin Morby absentmindedly flipping through a box of old family photos in the basement of his childhood home in Kansas City. Just hours before, at a family dinner, his father had collapsed in front of him and had to be rushed to the hospital. That night Morby still felt the shock and fear lodged in his bones. So he gazed at the images until one of the pictures jumped out at him: his father as a young man, proud and strong and filled with confidence, posing on a lawn with his shirt off. This was in January of 2020. As the months went on and the world dramatically changed around him, Morby felt an eerie similarity between his feelings of that night and the atmosphere of those spring days. Fear, anxiety, hope and resilience all churning together. The themes began twisting in his mind. History, trauma and the grand fight against time. Having the courage to dream, even while knowing the tragedy that often awaits those who dare to dream. While his father regained his strength, Morby meditated on these ideas. And then, he headed to Memphis. He moved into the Peabody Hotel and spent his days paying tribute and genuflecting to the dreamers he admired. In the evening, he would return to his room and document his ideas on a makeshift recording set-up, with just his guitar and a microphone. The songs, elegiac in nature, befitting all he had seen, poured out of him. Produced by Sam Cohen (who also worked on Morby's Singing Saw and Oh My God), This Is A Photograph features musical contributions from longtime staples of Morby's live band, as well as old friends and new collaborators alike. If Oh My God saw Morby getting celestial and in constant motion and Sundowner was a study in localized intent, This Is A Photograph finds Morby making an Americana paean, a visceral life and death, blood on the canvas outpouring. As Morby reminds us early on, time is undefeated. So what do we do while we're still here? This is a photograph of that sense of yearning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003c!-- TRACKLIST_START --\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. Intro (0:32)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. This Is A Photograph (3:30)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. A Random Act Of Kindness (4:14)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. Bittersweet, TN (4:14)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5. Disappearing (3:28)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e6. A Coat Of Butterflies (6:40)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e7. Rock Bottom (2:44)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e8. Forever Inside A Picture (0:15)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e9. Five Easy Pieces (4:11)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e10. Stop Before I Cry (4:59)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e11. It's Over (5:21)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e12. Goodbye To Good Times (5:15)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- TRACKLIST_END --\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 656605161686\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dead Oceans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5.13.22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e CD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Broadtime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48600418779291,"sku":"349597","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/7172\/files\/packshot-kevin-morby-this-is-a-photograph-cd-relix.jpg?v=1779251334"},{"product_id":"kevin-morby-singing-saw-lp-vinyl","title":"Kevin Morby – Singing Saw (LP Vinyl)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"relix-editorial\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMorby cut his teeth in the Woods and the Babies before going solo, and by the time *Singing Saw* arrived in 2016, it was clear he'd found his own gravitational pull. Recorded with producer Rob Barbati, the album draws on the dusty American songbook tradition he absorbed coming up in Kansas City, filtering it through a kind of cinematic spaciousness that rewards patient listening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSinging Saw is a record written simply and realized orchestrally. In it, Kevin Morby faces the reality that true beauty - deep and earned - demands a whole-world balance that includes our darker sides. 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His background moving through bands like Woods and the Babies gave him an instinct for collaborative, loose-limbed recording, and that sensibility runs through every track here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKevin Morby writes (and records, and imagines) at an almost incomparable clip, and his most recent album, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Is A Photograph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, studies life, time and mortality through myriad lenses. It’s a dynamic, buoyant record on big, heavy themes, so it only makes sense that Morby found he wasn’t quite done with it on its completion. 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Morby, whose distinctive drawl is like a cross between Bob Dylan and Lou Reed, has always been genre-agnostic, blending indie rock with blues, gospel, psychedelia and folk.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLittle Wide Open\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the most purely Americana offering he’s issues yet, particularly on the twangy, banjo and fiddle-infused love song “Die Young.” The stomp-clap adjacent “Javelin” might be Morby’s hookiest single—and he’s had a few singular songs over the years, from “Harlem River” to “Campfire” and “Beautiful Strangers,” which Mavis Staples covered. 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