It’s been a long while since the Cox Family has released a full-length album. Hailing from Cotton Valley in Webster Parish, Louisiana, the family band got their big break back in 1994 after working with Alison Krauss on I Know Who Holds Tomorrow. The album went on to win a Grammy, and the family signed with Asylum records in 1996 for their major label debut, Just When We Were Thinking It’s Over. Unfortunately, the band’s following project was shelved after management changes at the label. For almost two decades the Cox Family released no music until Rounder picked them up last year.
Now the family is gearing up for the release of Gone Like The Cotton, their first album in 17 years out in October via Rounder. “Growing up in the ’70s I listened to a lot of Bread songs.
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Eight tracks were the going thing,” Evelyn Cox tells. “This classic was penned by none other than David Gates. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve sung along with him. What a neat thing it was for me to have the chance to sing it myself.”
Dramatic strings, and the Cox Family’s signature harmonies give “Lost Without Your Love” a timeless quality, and by the time you hit the key change, you’ll probably be in tears.
The band has also graciously shared a teaser trailer for the upcoming record. “It looked like snow out there, some of the only snows we got, I guess,” the group says over images of their home of Cotton Valley – an area that used to be covered in fields of pickable fluffy cotton.
1. Good Imitation Of The Blues (3:11)
2. Lost Without Your Love (4:29)
3. Cash On The Barrelhead (2:49)
4. Desire (3:32)
5. In My Eyes (4:14)
6. Good News (4:39)
7. Let It Roll (5:42)
8. I’m Not So Far Away (2:57)
9. Honky Tonk Blues (2:22)
10. Too Far Gone (3:18)
11. I’ll Get Over You (3:31)
12. Gone Like The Cotton (4:03)