Louisville, Kentucky-based multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter and producer Britton Patrick Morgan follows his debut High Lonesome Throne with I Wanna Start a Band – an album whose title and inspiration comes from Morgan’s childhood fantasy of starting a band. According to Morgan “Making this record was a labor of heart through hard times, and I’m really proud of what’s come from the effort.” For the LP, Morgan draws inspiration from his family roots in Eastern Kentucky’s coal country, honoring Kentucky as a whole with deep respect and pride as he captures through song the “spirit of its people, its natural beauty and the virtues and vices that weave the state together.” Morgan’s signature vocals carry the listener through a collection of vignettes filled with infamous outlaws, the passage of time, love and loss, and the things in life that unite us all. Morgan produced the album himself and employed an all-star lineup including Darrell Scott (slide guitar and pedal steel), Dave Roe (Johnny Cash), Kevin McKendree on B3 (Delbert McClinton), and Taylor Shuck on banjo (Mama Said String Band). Album highlights include: the opening number about the outlaw “Bad Tom Smith”; the pining track about small-town life “Baxtor, KY”; a track about the different parts of life that make-up who Morgan is “Woven”; the beautiful harmony-driven “Fish and a Time to Kill”; the haunting song “Time Just Goes Away”; the reflective title-track; the rollicking tale of a love triangle on “Southern Gothic Love Story”; and the toe-tapping closing track “Home.” Britton Patrick Morgan’s I Wanna Start a Band showcases his polished songwriting abilities and definitely deserves to be considered among the one of the best of his contemporaries like Sturgill Simpson and Tyler Childers. – Written by JFelton
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