The Years Go Fast

by The Cadillac Three

Overview

The Cadillac Three worked themselves so hard in 2020 that they decided to take an extended break, a decision aided in part by the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic. Returning to action with The Years Go Fast, a title that acknowledges the speed of life, the Cadillac Three don't quite renounce the disco dabblings of Tabasco & Sweet Tea as much as throw them into a blender with the hard rock that initially made their name. A song like "The Worst" can come across at first like glitter-ball hedonism, but by the chorus, it slams right into a dive bar -- a move the Cadillac Three return to often on The Years Go Fast, punctuating their hybrids with raucous ravers and the occasional ballad. Everything, even the slow songs, feels extraordinarily loud and steely, a gilded production that makes it seem like the Cadillac Three are steeling themselves against the inevitable changes coming around the corner. The fact that the album feels pushed to 11 is alternately bracing and exhausting, yet parse out the individual moments -- or listen to it as a collection of self-constructed EPs -- and The Years Go Fast seems like further evidence that the Cadillac Three are one of the more adventurous bands in the Nashville mainstream in the early 2020s. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	10/27/2023
Label:	Big Machine Records
UPC:	0843930098064
Rank:	39335

Tracks

1. Young and Hungry
2. Double Wide Grave
3. Comin' Down From You
4. The Worst
5. Love Like War
6. The Torch
7. Dressed Up To Die
8. Hillbilly
9. This Town is a Ghost
10. Go To Bed Lonely
11. 4 Chords & the Proof
12. Pistols On the Levee

Album Credits

Performance Credits

The Cadillac Three   Primary Artist
Ketch Secor   Primary Artist,Fiddle,Featured Artist
Elvie Shane   Primary Artist,Vocals,Featured Artist
Neil Mason   Drums
Kelby Ray   Guitar (Bass),Lap Steel Guitar
David Dorn   Keyboards
Jaren Johnston   Vocals,Guitar (Electric),Vocals (Background)
Charlie Worsham   Guitar (Acoustic)
Rich Brinsfield   Guitar (Bass)

Technical Credits

Chuck Prophet   Composer
Eulene Sherman   Composer,Producer
Angelo Petraglia   Composer,Producer
Nathan Chapman   Composer
Drew Bollman   Recording
Neil Mason   Composer
Nathan Dantzler   Mastering Engineer
Jaren Johnston   Composer
Tony Lane   Composer
Ross Copperman   Composer
Ryan Tyndell   Composer
Kendell Marvel   Composer
The Cadillac Three   Producer,Recording
Logan Wall   Mixing,Composer,Producer,Recording
James McNair   Composer
Michael Whitworth   Composer
Riley Thomas   Composer
Elvie Shane   Composer
Harrison Tate   Mastering Engineer