Lee County's Finest, the new album from Alabamas BB Palmer, expands on
the themes explored in 2016s debut EP, Belle Fontaine, named after the
area on the west coast of Mobile Bay, where singer/songwriter Bernard
Breitung grew up. Breitung, who goes by BB Palmer, writes songs that
tackle big topics, subjects that main stream country artists tend to
shy away from, such as mortality, addiction and environmental
catastrophe. You could call it cosmic country, but I'm not sure that
goes far enough. Rather pretentiously, I have chosen to describe it as
existential honky-tonk. The music is comprised of classic honky-tonk
elements, with twanged, strummed and plucked guitars, weeping steel
and a sweet fiddle scratch behind Palmer's distinctive, idiosyncratic
voice. Lee County's Finest is somewhat of a trip, a listening
experience from start to finish, with samples and ambiances linking
the tracks in a continual sonic flow. When I first contacted BB,
asking to hear the new album, he was most definite that this was how
the album should be considered, as a cohesive whole, rather than as a
collection of individual songs.
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