Music Friday: "Chipping Mill"

Turnpike Troubadours have a new album out titled A Cat in the Rain. 

Here's a tune from that album. 

Music Friday: "The Housefire"

I'm not much of a "country" music fan, but I like the Turnpike Troubadours. 

Here's "The Housefire." 

Music Friday: "Gin, Smoke, Lies," "Southeastern Son," & "Old Blue Star"

Today I'm featuring songs from an album that came out Tuesday, Goodbye Normal Street by the Turnpike Troubadours.

This is a band I didn't know much about until this week. Here is how the outfit is described on Last.fm: "The Turnpike Troubadours, whose name is derived from the bumpy Oklahoma toll-roads and their hard lived folk singing heroes, are proof that isolation can be the mother of originality. Cutting their teeth in roadside dance halls and honky-tonks has made a serious impact on the band’s musical style, which walks the line between Woody Guthrie and Waylon Jennings. “Bossier City,” the band’s debut album, is testament to the small towns in which they were raised. It combines Folk, Country, Cajun, and Bluegrass with stories of longing, humor, tragedy, and general life in rural America."

First up is the opening track of the new album--"Gin, Smoke, Lies."

The next two songs from the album provide narratives about veterans.