Mavis Staples. It was the soundtrack to the chicest honky-tonk in town.Two years later and Andrews has dimmed the porch light, kicked off her cowboy boots and sent the big band home, offering up instead the devastatingly intimate and open-hearted ‘Old Flowers’.
With instrumentation provided solely by Andrews and two other musicians – Matthew Davidson on everything from bass and pedal steel to pump organ and Big Thief’s James Krivchenia on drums – her hushed, acoustic sound of her seventh album is fittingly meditative.
Musing on the break-up of a nine-year-long romantic relationship, simplicity is key to ‘Old Flowers’’ innate grace.The rolling piano-driven melody of ‘Guilty’ has the unhurried quality of a pared-back Neil Young ballad while.
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