Kelly Willis: Back Being Blue - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Back Being Blue
Artist: Kelly Willis
Label: Premium Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 752830934245
Genre: Country
Release Date: 2018-05-18
Number of Discs: 1

Kelly Willis is Back Being Blue, to take a color-coded cue from the title of her seventh album. It's a shade she wears well, though long-patient fans might just say: You had us at back. They'll take a new Willis record in whatever hue it comes, now that it's been 11 years since her last solo release, 2007's Translated from Love. The Austin-based singer/songwriter has hardly been MIA in the intervening years, having recorded and toured as part of a duo with Bruce Robison. But she's setting the duet M.O. aside for do-it-alone mode, at least as far as the spotlight is concerned (Robison hovers just outside it this time as producer). Hers is a solo voice again, but it's not necessarily sotto voce: This is an album of songs about lonesomeness that also happens to be a cracklingly good time.

Tracks:
1.1 Back Being Blue 3:48
1.2 Only You 2:38
1.3 Fool's Paradise 3:19
1.4 Modern World 2:27
1.5 Freewheeling 2:40
1.6 Afternoon's Gone Blind 3:17
1.7 What the Heart Doesn't Know 2:42
1.8 I'm a Lover (Not a Fighter) 3:03
1.9 We'll Do It for Love Next Time 3:12
1.10 Don't Step Away 4:22