On his latest album Blue Mesa (Bloodshot), suave roots-rock maven Luke Winslow-King has thankfully expunged the acrimony that dripped from his 2016 breakup album, I’m Glad Trouble Don’t Last Always—suggesting that album title was a testimonial. Back then his vitriol toward an ex was so strong he called her out by name, so it’squite a contrast when he opens his new album with an expression of unconditional support on “You Got Mine.” The acceptance and tenderness in lines such as “If indignation and despair / Have you feeling like life ain’t fair / Come on over baby, pull up a chair,” is heightened by the fact that the person Winslow-King wrote the song with, New Orleans fixture “Washboard” Lissa Driscoll, died from throat cancer not long after he cut the track.…
On his latest album Blue Mesa (Bloodshot), suave roots-rock maven Luke Winslow-King has thankfully expunged the acrimony that dripped from his 2016 breakup album, I’m Glad Trouble Don’t Last Always—suggesting that album title was a testimonial. Back then his vitriol toward an ex was so strong he called her out by name, so it’squite a contrast when he opens his new album with an expression of unconditional support on “You Got Mine.” The acceptance and tenderness in lines such as “If indignation and despair / Have you feeling like life ain’t fair / Come on over baby, pull up a chair,” is heightened by the fact that the person Winslow-King wrote the song with, New Orleans fixture “Washboard” Lissa Driscoll, died from throat cancer not long after he cut the track.…