Thirty Miles West

Country · 2012 · 13 tracks · 52m

Thirty Miles West

Neotraditional country. Warm pedal steel and unhurried baritone vocals navigate the distance between highway nostalgia and quiet, domestic grief.

June 5, 2012 · ACR

A dignified, warm-hearted exploration of life's transitions and the comfort of tradition.

Tracklist · 13 Tracks · 52m

01

Gonna Come Back as a Country Song

3:02

02

You Go Your Way

3:18

03

Everything but the Wings

4:44

04

Talk Is Cheap

3:48

05

So You Don’t Have to Love Me Anymore

3:43

06

Look Her in the Eye and Lie

3:48

07

Dixie Highway

7:25

08

She Don’t Get High

4:13

09

Her Life’s a Song

4:26

10

Nothin’ Fancy

3:13

11

Long Way to Go

3:40

12

Life Keeps Bringin’ Me Down

3:05

13

When I Saw You Leaving (For Nisey)

4:05

Moments Worth Listening For

The sprawling seven-minute bluegrass jam on Dixie Highway featuring Zac Brown's lightning-fast vocal interplay.

The devastatingly sparse opening of So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore where the pedal steel mimics a literal sigh.

The shift from traditional honky-tonk swing to the deeply personal, hushed reverence of When I Saw You Leaving.

Where This Album Departs

How does Thirty Miles West sound next to the rest of Alan Jackson's catalogue?

Road Trip+0.9σ

Road Trip saturates this record a touch more than the artist's norm.

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