Blue Mesa - Vinyl

Blue Mesa - VinylLuke Winslow Kings latest album is an example of craftsmanship at the highest level, radiating a warmth and timeless elegance. Adept at mixing country, blues, R&B, rock n roll, and folk influences intuitively and masterfully, Luke shapes a mood from many sources and shepherds it to a unifying place of acceptance and hope. Blue Mesa is both stately and approachable, manifestly proficient but deeply personal. What sets this album above the singer and

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Other songs seem to capture a more metaphoric sense of belonging

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The New Orleans-based polymath matches a technical wizardry with a thematic immediacy detailing a relationship in freefall

Luke shapes a mood from many sources and shepherds it to a unifying place of acceptance and hope

enchants with its laid back grace

Interlude II

Luti’s slide guitar work adds a haunting element to Winslow-King’s whispering comforts: “You’re in every song now / you’re in everything I do / and when I feel I’m sinking / I will reach for you

And the earnest title track serves as the record’s home

Showalter’s original – opens with a sauntering Louisiana swing

” Winslow-King muses