City Music is Kevin Morby's fourth LP as a solo performer, and it feels like it’s the one he’s been working towards this whole time; a breakthrough in form and quality 10 albums into his career as a sideman and solo performer, a feat that rarely happens in today’s go-go-go music economy. City Music has a black-and-white, well-worn feel and a sense that this artist has poured himself entirely into the project with all abandon, leading to an album that will stand sentry over the rest of his catalog. Picking City Music as Record of the Month – once we tucked ourselves comfortably into its environ – was an easy decision.
Read the rest of our Liner Notes for City Music here.
We talked to Kevin during a break in his rehearsals for the City Music tour about growing up in Kansas City, bumming around New York, and going solo. You can listen here.
Every story mentions Kevin Morby being a former member of Woods, but getting into Woods is tough, since the band has released nine LPs. We try to make it easy to get into them with this.
Kevin Morby had one of his friends write this short story about listening to City Music for the first time. Read it here.
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