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There is only one Bobby Bare, Jr. JIM JAMES (My Morning Jacket)

Bobby Bare, Jr. couldve phoned in a career. He couldve exploited the fact that he was born into Nashvilles Music Row elite, but instead hes blazed his own path of unique songwriting craftsmanship with a voice that blows through you like an unyielding wind on the desolate prairie.

Undefeated is BBJs first release since 2010, and is what he calls his break-up record, but the whole of it is much more involved: this isnt escapism, its an emotional survival guide. Here are reality checks, clever word-play, and daring arrangements with raw and varied textures, channelling everything from mirror-ball gazing 70s R&B/soul, to bright ballads from the hills and hollers of Venice Beach, to Bobbys own country music DNA. From anyone else, this refusal to play it on the straight and narrow might sound cluttered or disjointed, but Bobby never even breaks a sweat.