Josh Abbott Band hits the studio
Sunday, March 19, 2017 – Josh Abbott Band is currently in the studio on a new album for a disc to be released later this year.
The Texas group is working with producer Dwight Baker at Orb Studio in Austin.
The new album is the follow-up to the 2015 release "Front Row Seat," a disc about the break-up of Abbott's marriage. The CD contains the song "Wasn't That Stupid" with Carly Pearce, which gained airplay.
The group was on tour with the Randy Rogers Band, but Abbott's father passed away following a stroke, causing him to leave the tour.
Josh Abbott Band next plays March 22 in Sacramento and will continue to tour through the summer in support of 'Front Row Seat,
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CD reviews for Josh Abbott Band
The Josh Abbott Band's five-song EP starts out slightly silly, but then gets really serious from the middle to the end. It also surprisingly covers a lot of subject matter ground in a short time span.
It opens with "Santa Better Knock," which leans a little to the Eartha Kitt, sexy side of Christmas songs. This one is followed by "A Marshmallow World," a holiday song with probably the least amount of artistic food value, which finds Abbott and band just having a little ...
The Texas-based Josh Abbott Band's "The Highway Kind" effectively straddles the edginess of Texas alternative country with slick Nashville production values. The best two tracks are the opening title cut and the sweetly sentimental ballad that closes the set. Abbott kicks it off with the Erik Dylan, Troy Cartwright and Jon Randall tune about the constraint of city living ("Well, the downtown streets never got me where I was going") as compared to the preferred life on the ...
Releasing five albums and two EPs since 2008, the normally prolific Josh Abbott Band returns more to its roots after exploring new, more Nashville-type sound over the last two albums. This self-released effort shows maturity and confidence by remembering who they are and expanding their base at the same time.
With the title cut, "Catching Fire," co-written by Abbott, serving as a bridge between their past musical exploration and their rootsy Texas sound, it is his distinctive voice ...
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