{"product_id":"im-glad-trouble-dont-last-always-cd","title":"I'm Glad Trouble Don't Last Always - CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn \u003cem\u003eI’m Glad Trouble Don’t Last Always\u003c\/em\u003e, his fifth album and third for Bloodshot Records, Luke Winslow-King \u003cstrong\u003edraws from a deep, dark creative well\u003c\/strong\u003e, turning heartbreak and divorce into an inspired soundtrack for picking up the pieces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElectric and sentimentally raw, the album is part sonic travelogue, part handbook on navigating the stages of grief. It pulses through LWK’s geographical stomping grounds, starting with the pre-war jive of New Orleans, travelling the bloodlines that flow along the Mississippi River toward the \u003cstrong\u003eDelta bottleneck-slide\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the funky meter of \u003cstrong\u003eMemphis R\u0026amp;B\u003c\/strong\u003e. Further north, it takes a right for an infusion of \u003cstrong\u003egreasy Chicago blues\u003c\/strong\u003e, and arrives at the headwaters of his birthplace in rural Michigan for some tell-‘em-like-it-is confessionals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album was written and recorded while Luke and his newly formed band were on a 2015 \u003cstrong\u003esummer tour in Italy\u003c\/strong\u003e (and later finished in New Orleans’s Parlor Studios, mixed by \u003cstrong\u003eColin DuPuis, engineer for the Black Keys\u003c\/strong\u003e). The New Orleans-based polymath matches a technical wizardry with a thematic immediacy detailing a relationship in freefall. The songs unfold as diary entries put to his idiosyncratic blend of roots, pop and rock. It’s a Luke Winslow-King record unlike any he’s ever done; he’s found the light in the darkness and he’s plugging in and turning up to bare his soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough nine songs LWK stylistically nods to a blend of \u003cstrong\u003econtemporaries and influences like Gary Clark Jr., Bonnie Raitt, and Ry Cooder \u003c\/strong\u003ewhile maintaining a unique, coherent voice. He forges harmony between the modern - pull up a chair on the porch for the sinister rock \u0026amp; roll growl of “Louisiana Blues” - and the traditional - the cowboy country campfire ballad “Heartsick Blues”, complete with jangly dusty acoustic and the forlorn fiddle of Matt Rhody. The latter draws on some damn fine lyrical reference points, too: “She’s singing ‘Please Release Me’ [a reference to the Ray Price song], and ‘I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry’ [Hank Williams]\/ It’s thinking about her ‘Cold, Cold Heart’ [another Hank classic]\/ That makes me want to die”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are moments of suffering (the Petty-inflected “Change Your Mind”), desperate pleas (the brooding “Esther Please”), anger and indignation (the joyously bouncy, second-line ramble in “Act Like You Love Me”), and resignation (the soulful Muscle Shoals mosey of “Watch Me Go”). It all bottoms out with the shimmering heat of the Delta thrum in the title track. Through the \u003cstrong\u003eslow \u0026amp; lo, voodoo chile attack of il maestro Italian guitarist Roberto Luti\u003c\/strong\u003e, drummer Benji Bohannon, electric bassist Brennan Andes, and keyboardist Mike Lynch, LWK \u003cstrong\u003erips open the Fender and howls at the moon\u003c\/strong\u003e, “When I had you\/ I thought that you’d always be true\/ Now look here, pretty baby\/ Look what you made me do.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut there is light at the end of the tunnel. “On My Way” is a \u003cstrong\u003eSunday morning redemption spiritual\u003c\/strong\u003e, part farewell letter and part celebration; the score to the movie’s ending credits, the hope in the sunrise (“I’m on my way\/ Across the golden valley”).  The final track, “No More Crying Today,” reaches a place of forgiveness and strength, a gratitude that emotional pain can make you feel more alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough you know he’s been through some turbulent times, Luke Winslow-King fights for a sense of self, perhaps now different than it once was, and comes out the other side knowing of love and loss. Because trouble don’t last always.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn My Way\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI'm Glad Trouble Don't Last Always\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChange Your Mind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeartsick Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEsther Please\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWatch Me Go\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAct Like You Love Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLouisiana Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo More Crying Today\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"lukewinslowking","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":34580794507415,"sku":"20IGTDLA-CD","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0054\/1661\/6026\/products\/BS244_cover_2.jpg?v=1591720224","url":"https:\/\/lukewinslow-king.com\/products\/im-glad-trouble-dont-last-always-cd","provider":"Luke Winslow-King","version":"1.0","type":"link"}