6.6.17 Fans of Springsteens Nebraska sound will gravitate to the sound of this great new alt-country album. Armed with a gritty low manly voice Moreland delivers well crafted and honest moving music. Another great example of were country music is flourishing. And another great road trip companion piece.

 Big Bad Luv is the fourth solo LP from Americana artist John Moreland, a rusty-voiced troubadour from Oklahoma whose career has been picking up steam since bursting onto the scene with a trio of releases in 2011. Initially emerging out of Tulsa's punk and hardcore scene, Moreland shifted toward alt-country in the mid-2000s and made his name backed first by the Black Gold Band then by his second group, the Dust Bowl Souls, before eventually going solo. He's bounced around with a couple of labels and landed a handful of songs on FX's Sons of Anarchy, but Big Bad Luv marks his debut for revered U.K. alternative label 4AD. . .