The Black Lillies - Runaway Freeway Blues [2013] [FLAC]

1. The Fall 04:02
2. Gold and Roses 04:16
3. Ramblin' Boy 04:15
4. Goodbye Charlie 04:35
5. Smokestack Lady 05:06
6. Catherine 04:10
7. Ruby 05:21
8. By the Wayside 04:11
9. All This Living 04:29
10. Baby Doe 04:40
11. Glow 04:28

After co-founding Robinella and the CCstringband with his wife, he spent nearly a decade traveling the road and making music from coast to coast. When his marriage – and the band – dissolved in 2007, he returned to the road … this time, as the driver of a truck for a stone company. It was here, over a year spent rolling down the highways of East Tennessee, that the songs and sounds that would form the nexus of The Black Lillies were conceived.

And “Runaway Freeway Blues,” the band’s third studio album, was realized exactly there … on the road. When the Lillies weren’t playing their 200-odd gigs during 2012, they were in Wild Chorus Studio in their hometown of Knoxville, Tenn., working with Scott Minor of Sparklehorse to craft a beautiful ode to restless spirits and rambling hearts. Rooted in the mud-rutted switchbacks of Appalachia, “Runaway Freeway Blues” is the sound of a band that’s becoming something of a phenomenon across the country.