Rayland Baxter – Wide Awake (CD)
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The son of legendary Nashville session musician Bucky Baxter, who played with Steve Earle and Bob Dylan, Rayland carries a deep musical bloodline into his own restless, road-worn sound. Wide Awake finds him channeling that inheritance through something entirely his own, a record born from solitude and stillness that feels, paradoxically, alive with movement.
Rayland Baxter’s new album is a dream realized. Since he first started writing music, this roving rock ‘n’ roll philosopher dreamed of a space where he could devote every waking hour to creating. The hard-touring musician finally found it in the form of an abandoned rubber band factory in Franklin, KY, where he covered the windows, threw a mattress on the floor, and with guitar and piano in tow, spent three straight months writing. At night he would sit and listen to the sounds around him: coyotes, the howling wind, the faint prattle of the nightly TV news. The result of this isolation quest is ‘Wide Awake’ (July 13/ATO Records), a ten-song collection that celebrates the best aspects of humanity and grasps at understanding the worst.
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UPC: 880882329921
Label: ATO Records
Release Date: 7.13.18
Format: CD