Album Info

Small Town Family Dream

Country - 2012

Josh Abbott and his band play their hearts out on Small Town Family Dream, sounding rigid with touring experience, yet... more

Tracklist

1

Idalou

4:48 min
2

I'll Sing About Mine

4:16 min
3

Touch

3:28 min
4

She Will Be Free

4:17 min
5

Hotty Toddy

3:51 min
6

Ffa

1:01 min
7

Flatland Farmer

3:37 min
8

My Texas (feat. Pat Green)

3:11 min
9

Dallas Love

3:42 min
10

Hell's Gates on Fire

4:15 min
11

Rain Finally Coming Down

3:41 min
12

Small Town Family Dream

4:29 min
13

Matagorda Bay

3:56 min

About Small Town Family Dream

Josh Abbott and his band play their hearts out on Small Town Family Dream, sounding rigid with touring experience, yet loose with a confident groove. Musing on his small Texas hometown, “Idalou” opens with walls of rootsy tones and soaring melodies as Abbott’s picturesque lyrics start a conceptual narrative that threads through his third studio album. He inflects a bit like Ryan Adams in the following “I’ll Sing About Mine” while weaving a poetic piece of nostalgia that runs with John Mellencamp’s penchant for glorifying small-town living. Although the production resonates with an expensive sheen throughout, Abbott never succumbs to Nashville assembly-line pop, even on the power ballad “Touch,” where red-dirt grit pokes through shimmering guitars, stadium-mixed drums, and lyrics that fawn over the girl next door. “She Will Be Free” is a more triumphant love song, offering a balance of romantic folk and towering, harmonious twang-rock. Abbott bestows appreciation for Lubbock maverick Terry Allen with stellar covers of his “FFA” and “Flatland Farmer.”