“This album is a mirror,” says Jason Boland (Country). “It’s a retrospective, a reflection of everywhere we’ve been and everything we’ve learned over the last 25 years on the road.”
The Last Kings Of Babylon—Boland’s eleventh studio album with his longtime band, The Stragglers—is no nostalgia trip, though. Recorded with legendary producer Lloyd Maines, the collection finds Boland and the band continuing to evolve, pushing sonic boundaries and challenging genre conventions even as they embrace history and tradition. The songwriting is bold and muscular here, filtering classic country through a kaleidoscopic lens of rock, punk, bluegrass, and folk, and the performances are raw and exhilarating to match, captured live on the studio floor in just two whirlwind days of basic tracking. The result is a timeless offering from a group of master craftsmen at the top of their game, a joyful, honest snapshot of a working band 25 years into their unlikely—and unstoppable—career.
Also featuring:
- Jeremy Pinnell (Honky Tonk)
