Put A Record On: Cannon, Childers and a very unnecessary song about...good ol boys

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The Good

How Many, Julia Cannon: This album spans country-tinged songs with pedal steel, jazzy tracks that have a Corinne Bailey Rae vibe, and sultry post-Steve Lacy R&B jams — but the through-line is Cannon’s lovely, bright singing, which you will almost certainly have a hard time turning off. These songs are folk-pop gold: “Panic Attack Song” with its gut-deep honesty; “Yellow Lines,” a highway song made unrecognizable; “August 27th” a lullaby chock full of addictive harmonies. This is original, carefully-crafted music that merits at least one front-to-back spin. — NW

“In Your Love,” Tyler Childers: By now, I hope you have had a chance to watch Tyler Childers’ new video for his new song, “In Your Love,” which is a heartbreaking and gorgeous story of loss and love between two men in Appalachia. Conceived in collaboration with Kentucky poet laureate Silas House, it’s the first release from his forthcoming new album, Rustin’ In the Rain, out this September. Naturally, the internet did the thing the internet does as soon as something they call “polarizing” is released (I have a hard time calling love of any kind polarizing, but the reason some people see it as such is exactly why we are here, and why we very much need videos like this). Most people in my curated social media world praised it, but as I scanned back a little I found all of the expected reactions right in plain view – that he’s “woke,” gone political, virtue signaling or, that “the quickest path to media worship is to be a mindless NPC repeating tired untruths. Tyler should move to California” (that one was tweeted right to me).