New Music for April 2019

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John Paul White | The Hurting Kind

Since his last solo album in 2016, this former member of the Grammy Award–winning duo the Civil Wars has kept busy—he owns Single Lock Records in Florence, Alabama, and has worked on albums by artists such as Dylan LeBlanc and Penny & Sparrow. The Hurting Kind trades on White’s penchant for collaboration, with the Alabama Shakes’s Ben Tanner in the producer’s chair and vocal contributions from The Secret Sisters and Erin Rae. One of the album’s high points—“This Isn’t Gonna End Well,” a duet with Lee Ann Womack—starts at a slow pace and builds to a sweeping, orchestral chorus as the lyrics reveal a guarded narrator too afraid of loss to appreciate a good thing.

Essential Tracks: “My Dreams Have All Come True,” “This Isn’t Gonna End Well”