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Luke Bell The King Is Back Cloudy Vinyl LP 2025

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Cat no. 08262022LP
Tracklist:

  1. Rattlesnake Man
  2. Don't Mind If I Do
  3. Long Gone Love
  4. Cold Stew
  5. Daydream Blues
  6. I'm Not
  7. Black Crows
  8. On Our Own
  9. All I've Got
  10. Dark House Of Fools
  11. Ready for Love
  12. Horse Flies
  13. Guitar Man
  14. Hand to Hold
  15. Blue Freightliner
  16. Hard Time
  17. Rounder
  18. Stag
  19. Roofer's Blues
  20. River
  21. Bottom of the Sea
  22. The King is Back
  23. Irrigator's Blues
  24. Orangutang
  25. Waste of Time
  26. Seven and Steady
  27. The Party Song
  28. Tiger's Mouth

As a leader of country-western music, Luke Bell's time on the throne was short. He released one official album during his lifetime, delivering a mix of honky-tonk shuffles and Bakersfield barnburners in a voice as magnetic as his own personality. He toured briefly, graduating from career-launching gigs in the dive bars of Austin and Nashville to bucket-list shows opening for Willie Nelson and Dwight Yoakam. And then he disappeared from the public eye to privately wage a war with the mental illness that eventually claimed his life. He was just 32 years old. Three years after his passing, Luke's music endures. Nowhere is that more apparent than The King Is Back, a posthumous collection of studio recordings, most of them previously unreleased, that showcase his full range as a storyteller and songwriter. Tracked between November 2013 and August 2016, these 28 songs capture Luke in his artistic prime, spinning stories about blue-collar workers, heartbroken ramblers, and the personal struggles that bind us toget