Alex Dupree - Thieves (Bone Vinyl)

Dupree got his musical start in Austin, Texas, and his voice still has some Heartworn Highways-era color to it. It”s a quality meant for the stories told on Thieves.
These are stories about the Trump years, a span which coincided with Dupree”s own attempt to rebuild a life after divorce. It was a time for the painful ending of illusions. He was living between artist residencies, sublets, and storage units along I-10, and soon found a form in the long lines of traditional folk ballads. Slowly, new songs emerged. Producer Michael Krassner”s experience arranging for film and his deep attention to songcraft set a perfect stage for Dupree”s lyrical storytelling. Old-Hollywood string crescendos and delicate acoustic phrases pass in and out of focus behind the vocals, a lush backdrop for the songs” stark dialogue. A wide array of traditional instruments fill out these guitar songs. It”s the thoughtful arrangements paired with Dupree”s aptitude for songwriting that makes for such a special record. Thieves is the story of starting over. It”s a sturdy songwriter”s album with heady, heavy folk and country flourishes. It”s about coming to terms with the uncanny patterns of your life, the strange repetitions you can”t escape.

• 1 Toronto Reel
• 2 The Seer
• 3 Fake Diamonds, False Powers
• 4 Wish You Had Got to Me First
• 5 The Cave
• 6 Missouri Moon
• 7 I”m Gonna Make You Mine
• 8 Low Country Blues
• 9 Lawman
• 10 Fortunado