Empty Horses

Includes digital download.

Artist, illustrator, writer and lo-fi innovator, Tobin Sprout was the super-productive partner of Robert Pollard in the legendary Guided By Voices. The gifted songwriter returns with a pensive, expansive part autobiographical album Empty Horses. Here he's part Townes Van Zandt, part John Prine, part Robbie Robertson at his retrospective best. The album is a meticulously observed study of America and Americana (not the music, but the state of mind). An alternative American Songbook, if you will, a collection of laments to simpler times and the struggle for what's right, peppered with an examination of faith and the search for a sense of justice. Close up and personal, Empty Horses is a poignant carefully etched experience, a rolling journey in modern times, nodding back to tradition, a personal snapshot filled with honesty.

Tracklist

Side A
1. Wings Prelude
2. The Return
3. Breaking Down
4. On Golden Rivers
5. The Man I Used To Know

Side B
1. Every Sweet Soul
2. Empty Horses
3. Antietam
4. All In My Sleep
5. No Shame