All Across This Land

by Blitzen Trapper

Overview

No longer concerned with making even the slightest feint toward delicate indie rock sensibilities, Blitzen Trapper settle into the '70s on All Across This Land, their eighth album but only third since retooling themselves as hirsute troubadours. With its ten songs weighing in at a mere 40 minutes, All Across This Land feels designed to be spun on vinyl, with the first side setting like a sunset with "Lonesome Angel" and the second side crashing out of the gate with "Nights Were Made for Love," a song designed as both an open-road anthem and a third single to be serviced to AOR. Blitzen Trapper's period trappings -- which, outside of the occasional old-fashioned synth purloined from 1985, are meticulously accurate -- are the key to their charm, because they devote as much attention to their arrangements and productions as they do their songs. A fair chunk of All Across This Land hews to a burnished folk-rock suited to the wide-open plains -- it's a combination of Neil Young and the Band, skewed by a dash of Petty -- but the songs that pull in the attention are the lumbering riff-rockers, the ones that open the album and set a muscular, nostalgic tone that, if you're of a certain disposition, is pretty hard to resist. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	06/17/2022
Label:	Vagrant
UPC:	4050538705928
Rank:	79661

Tracks

1. All Across This Land
2. Rock and Roll (Was Made for You)
3. Mystery and Wonder
4. Love Grow Cold
5. Lonesome Angel
6. Nights Were Made for Love
7. Cadillac Road
8. Let the Cards Fall
9. Even if You Don't
10. Across the River

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Blitzen Trapper   Primary Artist
Paul Brainard   Pedal Steel
Laura Kucera   Strings

Technical Credits

Eric Earley   Composer,Producer
Gregg Williams   Engineer
Eric Adrian Lee   Design
Michael Van Pelt   Photography,Producer
James Brown   Mixing
Paul Laxer   Photography
Meredith Adelaide   Photography
Robbie Augspurger   Cover Photo
Adam Gonsalves   Mastering