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Nr : SFR117 Label : State Fair Records │██ │█▓ ------------------------------------------------------------------ │██ │▓█ Release date: 2021-10-30 Retail date: 2021-10-08 │██ │██░   ▄▄▄  ▄▄      ▄▄  ▄██▄  ▄▄▄ ▐██▓░ ░█▀▐▌ ▄█▓▌  ▌ ▐██▓▐██▓▐░▐█▀█ ▐▓█▀███▄▄▄░ ▐█░▓ ▐██ ▐ █▌▐▌██ ██░ █ ██░▓  ░▄▄▄███▀█▓▐│ ▐█▀█▓▄▀▄▀▓▌█▀▓▄░  ▀██▄▐██ ▐ █▌█ ██ █▌  █ ▀███▓ ░▄▓▀▀▀ ░▓█▀█▐│ ▀ ▌▐▌▀▓▓▀ ▀   ▄█▌ ██ ▌ ▐█▌ █▌ ▐░▐█    ▄█  ▀ │██│ ▀▄▀▄▒░▓ ▓▀██▓  ▀▀▀   ▀  ▀▓  ▀█▓ ▓▀█▀   │██ ░ ▀▄▀▄                   █████▄▄      │██ ▐▌▐▌                   ▀░   ▓▀▄ ▄▓▄ ██ ▓▀▄▀                ▄▄▀      ▐▌  ▀  │██               █▓░     ▄█▀     ▓█              ░▀▄▄▄▄███░       ▓█                ▀▀▀▀▀          ██ ██ ██ ██ 1. Dallas Lights 3:57 ██ 2. Three Strikes 3:43 ██ 3. Cowboy 3:03 ██ 4. Sexy After Dark 3:50 ██ 5. Flash Paper 3:41 ██ 6. Fossil Fuel 3:42 ██ 7. Dumpster Diving 2:30 ██ 8. Gas Station Roses 3:17 ██ 9. Welfare Chet 2:48 ██ 10. See You Next Time 2:47 ██ ██ ██ ██ █▓ Total Runtime: 33:18 █▓ █░                 ▄             █                ▐██            ▓                ▓█▌░           ░                   ▀███████▓▀▀▀       ▓██▓░       ▄        ██▓  ▄▄   ▄▄▄▓ ░▓██▓ ░▀████▓      ██▌ ▄█▀█ ▐██  ██▀█ ▐█▀█▌ ░▓████▀░ ░ ░▀▀▄░ ▐█▄ ███▌▐██▓▐ ▐█▌ ▐█░▐█ ██░█░ ░▓█▐▀▀▄▀▄ ▄ ░ ▓ ▐█░▐▌██▓██▌░▐ ▐█▌ ██▓▀  █▌▄   ▀ ▐▌▐ █ ▓███ ██ ██▌ █ ▐█▌ ██▓░ ▐▀▀▀█▌ ░▒▄▀▄▀ █░ ░██▌ ██ ▐██ ▌░ █▌░ ▀█▄▄▓  ██▓ ▄▀▄▀ ░ │█▓   ▀   ▀▓ ▀▀▀   ▐█▓      ▄█▀   ▐▌▐▌ ▄ █▓                 ▀             ▀▄▀▄ ▀▓▀ ██ ░▄ ██│ In just three years, Dallas, TX native Joshua Ray Walker has gone from ██│ virtual unknown to an artist Rolling Stone calls ôcountryÆs most ██│ fascinating young songwriterö. On his new album See You Next Time, ██│ Walker shares an imagined yet truthful portrait of a brokedown ██│ honky-tonk and the misfits who call it home: barflies and wannabe ██│ cowboys, bleary-eyed dreamers and hopelessly lost souls. His third ██│ full-length in three years, the album marks the final installment in a ██│ trilogy that originated with WalkerÆs 2019 debut Wish You Were Here and ██│ continued with last yearÆs breakout Glad You Made It, which No ██│ Depression declared ôan album that outshines expectations for what ██│ country music can, and should, sound like.ö ██│ ██│ ôThe whole idea with the trilogy was to use the honky-tonk as a setting ██│ where all these different characters could interact with each other,ö ██│ says Walker, who drew immense inspiration from the local dive bars he ██│ first started sneaking into and gigging at as a teenager growing up in ██│ East Dallas. ôIn my mind, this albumÆs taking place on the night before ██│ the bar closes foreverùthe songs are just me taking snapshots of that ██│ world, and all the moments that happen in it.ö ██│ ██│ Like its predecessors, See You Next Time came to life at Audio Dallas ██│ Recording Studio with producer John Pedigo and a first-rate lineup of ██│ musicians, including the likes of pedal-steel player Adam ôDitchö Kurtz ██│ and rhythm guitarist Nathan Mongol Wells of Ottoman Turks (the ██│ country-punk outfit for which Walker sidelines as lead guitarist). The ██│ albumÆs immaculately crafted but timelessly vital sound provides a ██│ prime backdrop for WalkerÆs storytelling, an element that endlessly ██│ blurs the lines between fable-like fiction and personal revelation. ôI ██│ learned a long time ago that writing from a characterÆs perspective ██│ lets me examine things about myself without ever feeling too ██│ self-conscious about it,ö he points out. Closely informed by the ██│ tremendous loss heÆs suffered in recent years, See You Next Time ██│ emerges as the most powerful work to date from an extraordinarily ██│ gifted songwriter, imbued with equal parts weary pragmatism and the ██│ kind of unabashedly romantic spirit that defies all cynicism. ██│ ██│ In its nuanced exploration of so many disparate moodsùgrief and ██│ celebration, sorrow and surrenderùSee You Next Time takes an entirely ██│ unexpected turn on its lead single ôSexy After Dark.ö Fueled by a fiery ██│ horn section, the wildly catchy track hits a brilliant balance of ██│ bravado, soul-stirring confession, and brutally self-aware humor. ██│ ôThereÆs a deep history of sexy-crooner country songs played by dudes ██│ who were pretty unsexy by all accounts but still had so much swagger,ö ██│ says Walker. ôæSexy After DarkÆ was my attempt at writing a song like ██│ that, a fun song IÆd want to crank up and party to. It all came back to ██│ wanting to really push the boundaries of what I could do on this ██│ album.ö ██│ ██│ In a stunning tonal shift, See You Next Time then delivers its most ██│ devastating moment, the intensely intimate ôFlash Paper.ö ôMy dad had a ██│ four-year battle with lung cancer and passed away in November, and ██│ before he died, he gave me a cigar box full of notes and cards and lots ██│ of random little things, like a ribbon from a reading competition from ██│ when he was in elementary school,ö says Walker. ôHe also put in a flash ██│ drive with a video heÆd recorded, which he told me not to watch until ██│ Christmas. My dad was from East Texas and kind of a good-old-boy type, ██│ and the video was really vulnerable for him. Some of it was similar to ██│ things heÆd said over the years, as he dealt with his illness and the ██│ two of us grew closer, but that songÆs mostly about me wishing IÆd ██│ heard more of those things while he was still here.ö ██ │▓█ │▓█ │██│ ██│ URL: http://joshuaraywalker.com ██│ ██│     ██│        │██░  █▄     │██▓░        ▓███▄▄▄  ▐██▓     ░▓██▓ │▓█▀███▄▄▄░   ─────▐─────▐───▐─░▌───▄─────▐██▄──── ░▓████▀░ │█▀█▓▄▀▄▀▓▌█▀▓▄░  ─▄───│─────▌────▌─▐──▀▓▀───▐░▓▓███── ▓█▐▀▀▄▀▄ ▄ ░ ▌▐▌▀▓▓▀ ▀░ ▀▓▀──▌────▐─────▐─────────▐▓─────▐──  ▀ ▐▌▐ ▀▄▀▄▒░▓ ────▐─────├────▄█▌───────▄▌─────▐───  ░▒▄▀▄▀ ░ ▀▄▀▄ ─▄▄▄▌───▄▓▌───▐██▌──-███▄▌─────▐░───  ▄▀▄▀ ░ ▄ ▐▌▐▌ ███▓ ▐███░   ░▀▀▀▀  ▄▄▓▄▌  ▄   ▐▌▐▌ ▄ ▀▓▀ ▓▀▄▀       ▀▀▓  2 0 2 1    ▓ ▐███▓  ▀▓▀  ▀▄▀▄ ▀▓▀    ▐  ▓▓      ░▄