Anyone lucky enough to have heard The Delines’ debut album, the country-soul concept album Colfax, upon its somewhat low-key release last year will already know that the world owes Willy Vlautin a handsome favour (over and above our gratitude for his essential quartet of novels that is ), for bringing the band’s wonderful singer Amy Boone to our attention. Hopefully, the combo’s equally impressive follow up Scenic Sessions will win a few more converts to The Damnations’ singer’s cause.
The album, a limited edition “road” release only on sale during the band’s current European tour, picks up exactly where Colfax left off with Vlautin continuing his attempt to single-handedly re-kindle our love affair with the torch song. There is a fine line between happiness and heartache in…
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…Vlautin’s songs and his leading ladies often find themselves with one foot either side of that ever-shifting border, unsure whether to stand by their man or head for the lonesome highway. It’s testimony to Vlautin’s particular genius as a songwriter that he’s able to realise this world of restless despair without ever appearing to strike a false note.