Name: Die Midwestern
Brand: Arlo McKinley

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

OBR055

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black

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Discs

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Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-09-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

787790880189

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

OBR055CD

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2020-08-14

787790880080

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Arlo McKinley

Genre GB

Country / Americana

Label GB

Oh Boy Records

The last signing to John Prine's Oh Boy label, and coming out of the eclectic Cincinnati music scene that has produced everyone from The National and Walk the Moon to Bootsy Collins, Arlo McKinley has washed his songs in the blood of street soul, country, punk and gospel – and tattooed them onto the underground.

Filled with a weight, honesty and gritty-hope from rustbelt city life, McKinley rolled downriver to Memphis to Sun Studio where Grammy Award-winning producer Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price, John Prine) gathered a working man’s all-star band to record his Oh Boy Records debut, “Die Midwestern.”

McKinley’s 10 original songs bleed truth and emotion from a heart scarred by wild nights and redeemed by Sunday morning confessions. “She’s Always Around,” “Suicidal Saturday Night,” “Bag of Pills” and “Ghost” - a song he wrote in a funeral home parking lot after carrying the coffin of his best friend - are all songs carved out in the key of life.

Filled with a hardscrabble spirit akin to the late, great Johnny Paycheck, McKinley is making a name for himself that blue-collar way - humbly stacking piles of soulful acoustic songs that hurt so good. Along the way, he has shared stages with kindred musical spirits John Moreland, Jason Isbell, Justin Townes Earle, Lucero, and contemporaries Tyler Childers, Ian Noe, and Colter Wall

Die Midwestern

Music GB