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Monday, 23 December 2024

Little Big Town Unwrap Their First-Ever Holiday Album The Christmas Record































LITTLE BIG TOWN UNWRAPS THEIR FIRST-EVER HOLIDAY ALBUM THE CHRISTMAS RECORD

HOSTED FIRST-EVER HOLIDAY SPECIAL ON NBC, LITTLE BIG TOWN’S CHRISTMAS AT THE OPRY, THIS FALL

04 OCTOBER 2024 (TORONTO, ON) - Need the perfect soundtrack to help you deck the halls? Multi-platinum GRAMMY® Award-winning four-piece Little Big Town – comprised of Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet, and Jimi Westbrook – unwrapped their first-ever Christmas album, The Christmas Record, out now via Capitol Records Nashville on October 4, 2024.

But wait, there’s more.  Alongside The Christmas Record, Little Big Town  released a beautiful music video for “Glow”.

 Little Big Town pine for the holiday season as they venture through the breathtaking town of Gstaad, Switzerland, in search of the holiday spirit. The video is directed by long-time collaborators Becky Fluke and Reid Long.

Listen to The Christmas Record HERE (preferred music platform) or below:

Watch the video for “Glow”:

“We shot the video for “Glow” while on tour in Switzerland this summer. Being in Gstaad and the Swiss Alps channeled our holiday spirit, so we couldn’t pass up the chance to create our own winter wonderland magic!” says Little Big Town. “We’re so happy to finally share our first-ever Christmas record with the world. We hope this soundtrack will create some new traditions for you this holiday season.”

The 11-track record – produced by Dave Cobb – includes new interpretations of country classics and a stellar batch of original soon-to-be-classics. Among these originals is “Glow,” the upbeat track that’s begging to be listened to around a crackling, stocking-adorned fireplace.

The Christmas Record follows the release of Little Big Town’s first-ever Greatest Hits album, released in August to celebrate the band’s 25th anniversary. Consisting of 12 tracks that span the group’s genre-defining discography, the record pays tribute to their remarkable journey thus far, and teases what’s to come thanks to fresh collaborations with Kelsea Ballerini, Miranda Lambert, and Sugarland.

Little Big Town won’t be slowing down this holiday season. Along with the release of The Christmas Record, the band will be ringing in the holidays with NBC for their one-of-a-kind special, “Little Big Town’s Christmas at The Opry.” The 2-hour holiday spectacular will feature performances from Little Big Town along with some extra-special guests. At the end of the October, Little Big Town headed out on the road with special guest Sugarland for the Take Me Home Tour, which hit 18 arenas across the country.

‘Tis the season for Little Big Town!

The Christmas Record
Glow (writers Ashley Monroe, Connie Harrington, Karen Fairchild)
Santa Claus Is Back In Town
If We Make It Through December
Someday At Christmas (written by Bryan Wells, Ron Miller)
Christmas Night With You (writers Toffer Brown, Ashley Ray, Karen Fairchild)
Believe In Christmas (writers Ashley Monroe, Connie Harrington, Karen Fairchild)
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Tennessee Christmas (writers Amy Grant, Gary Chapman)
Christmas Time Is Here
Evergreen (writers Dave Cobb, Jimi Westbrook, Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet)
Holiday (writers Dave Cobb, Jimi Westbrook, Karen Fairchild, Phillip Sweet)
·         Original songs in bold

About Little Big Town
GRAMMY, ACM, CMA, AMA, and Emmy Award-winning group, Little Big Town – consisting of members Karen Fairchild, Phillip Sweet, Kimberly Schlapman, and Jimi Westbrook – burst onto the music scene 25 years ago with smash hits “Boondocks,” “Bring It On Home,” “Good As Gone” and the GRAMMY-nominated “Little White Church.”

The band’s breakthrough albums Tornado and PainKiller produced multiple No. 1 singles, including “Pontoon,” “Tornado,” and “Day Drinking,” as well as the history-making, best-selling country single of 2015 “Girl Crush.” 2017’s The Breaker debuted at #1 on the Billboard Country Charts to critical acclaim and features their GRAMMY-winning, multi-week #1 single, “Better Man,” as well as the 2019 GRAMMY-nominated, “When Someone Stops Loving You.”

In January 2020, the band released their self-produced ninth studio album, Nightfall, which once again hit the top of the Billboard Country Charts. The record included critically acclaimed and GRAMMY-nominated songs “The Daughters,” “Over Drinking” and “Wine, Beer, Whiskey” - the latter of which has reached almost 400 million global streams.

In September 2022, they released their tenth studio album, Mr. Sun, which debuted as the Top Country Album released by a Group in 2022.

To date, Little Big Town has earned more than 45 award show nominations and has taken home over 20 awards, including multiple GRAMMY, AMA, People’s Choice, CMA, and ACM Awards, in addition to an Emmy award. To celebrate their 25th anniversary this year, Little Big Town released their first-ever career-spanning Greatest Hits album on August 9th, which features collaborations with Kelsea Ballerini, Miranda Lambert, and Sugarland.

Along with the new album, Little Big Town are gearing up to play arenas nationwide on The Take Me Home Tour, with special guests and recent collaborators Sugarland. Celebrations are set to continue into the New Year with the release of the band’s first-ever Christmas album, The Christmas Record, out now. 

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Tuesday, 12 March 2024

Little Big Town are bringing their “Friends Of Mine Tour” to the UK this September

Little Big Town are bringing their “Friends Of Mine Tour” to the UK this September






























Pre-sale started March 5 and the general sale began March 8

Country music enthusiasts across the UK are in for a treat as Little Big Town gears up to bring their FRIENDS OF MINE Tour to British shores in September 2024.

The Grammy Award-winning group will be joined by the talented singer-songwriter Ashley Monroe, promising fans a series of engaging and melodious performances in cities including Manchester, Bristol, Cambridge, Newcastle, London, Birmingham, and Glasgow.

UK DATES
Tuesday 10 September 2024 - Bridgewater Hall, Manchester (Lower Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3WS) £57.20 each Event
Wednesday 11 September 2024 - Bristol Beacon, Bristol (Trenchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5AR) £41:25 each Event
Thursday 12 September 2024 - Cambridge Corn Exchange, Cambridge (Wheeler Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QB) £41:25 each Event
Saturday 14 September 2024 - O2 City Hall, Newcastle (Northumberland Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 8SF) Event
Monday 16 September 2024 - Eventim Apollo, London (Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9QH) £38.50 - £63.65 Event
Tuesday 17 September 2024 - Symphony Hall, Birmingham (8 Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2EA) £41.25 - £54.45 each Event 
Thursday 19 September 2024 - SEC Armadillo, Glasgow (Finnieston Street, Glasgow, G3 8YW))£38.60 - £46.55 Event

The country's quartet were out early this year when they announced plans for the 2024 tour. The Nightfall Tour started with a Keynote: A Show at Historic Carnegie Hall in New York on January 16. Little Big Town will be the first dominating country to play on the pitch after Alan Jackson in 2013, the press release said. The Big City Night Tour takes place from January 16 to May 2, ending in Denver, Colorado. Meanwhile, the group will perform in more than 30 major theaters in the United States. Caitlin Smith opens all shows.

Little Big Town will also join Country music icon George Strait and eight-time GRAMMY winner Chris Stapleton with nine tour datesin 2024!
On Sept 16, 2022 the ACM, CMA and GRAMMY Award-winning band Little Big Town – consisting of Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet, and Jimi Westbrook – released their new, 10th studio album Mr. Sun (Capitol Records Nashville/ UMG Recordings) listen here (preferred platform).


The album debuted and peaked at No.56 on the Billboard 200 and No.10 on the Billboard Top Country Albums (14,000 equivalent album units).

The band also unveiled the music video for “Three Whiskeys and the Truth,” which was directed by Running Bear Film’s Stephen & Alexa Kinigopoulos – watch here. “Three Whiskeys and the Truth” was written by Fairchild and Schlapman alongside their beloved Love Junkies (Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, and Liz Rose), ruminating on the feelings that hide in the dark but that always come to the surface somehow..

Praise for Mr. Sun included The New York Times hailing it “a sweeping record” and American Songwriter observed that “inside the record, notes reminiscent of the Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac, and the Eagles ring out, but they’re all tailored to Little Big Town’s country expertise.” Rolling Stone called it “smooth and sweet, with just the right undercurrent of sadness,” with production that feels “spacious and golden.”

Billboard singled out the album’s “swelling” closing track “Friends of Mine,” as a “benediction to finding the collective strength to persevere through tough times,” while Rolling Stone further tied it to the full record: “Like much of Mr. Sun, it feels like a warm embrace from a loved one.”

The album’s lead single “Hell Yeah” (released on April 11, 2022) was co-written by Sweet, Westbrook, Corey Crowder and Tyler Hubbard.
The genesis of Mr. Sun was unlike any of their previous albums. Due to the pandemic, the band found themselves off the road and apart for the first time ever throughout their 20-year journey. The resilience and creativity born from those months unearthed a deep appreciation for both one another, and the privilege of making music – ultimately inspiring the self-produced Mr. Sun, which packs both the sparkle of storytelling and the heat of truth-telling in a way only Little Big Town can.

“Mr. Sun is intentionally an emotional record that holds hands well with our last album Nightfall,” Karen Fairchild shared. “Mr. Sun is focused on better days ahead, the value of friendships and family; it touches on heartbreak and letting go, but it’s full of sunshine and joy.”

Little Big Town ALBUM Chart History
LBT’s previous album NIGHTFALL (released January 17, 2020) made a debut at No.1 on the Official UK Country Album Top 20 Chart (Week Ending 30 January 2020) it also topped Billboard Top Country Albums chart and peaked at No.13 on the Billboard 200.

Little Big Town landed their fourth top 10 album, as THE BREAKER made a Billboard 200 bow at No.4 with 51,000 units (43,561 from traditional album sales | Chart dated March 18, 2017).
The group previously visited the Billboard 200 top 10 with PAIN KILLER (No. 7 in 2014), TORNADO (No. 2, 2012) and THE REASON WHY (No. 5, 2010).

Little Big Town had the second-most top 10s among country duo/groups during the 2010 decade, trailing only Lady Antebellum, which has five top 10s since 2010. (Lady Antebellum had a total of six top 10s, stretching back to its 2008 self-titled release.)

The Breaker was led by the Taylor Swift-written single “Better Man,” which spent two weeks at No.1 on the Hot Country Songs chart (the group’s third leader on the tally). Over on the Country Airplay chart, it has spent the last two weeks atop the list, the act’s second #1 following up on 2012’s “Pontoon.”

Before The Breaker, LBT last charted on Top Country Albums with PAIN KILLER. In the week ending Oct. 26, 2014 it sold 41,979 copies and made a bow at No.7 on the BB200 (#3 Country).

LBT’s fifth studio set TORNADO (released Sept 11, 2012), powered by its hit lead single, "Pontoon," opened with a No.2 start on the Billboard 200 giving the quartet its highest charting album ever with best sales week (112,758 copies sold, then 50,321 copies sold in week 2 down 55%). It also netted the group their second No.1 on the Country Albums chart and more than doubled the first week sales of previous release THE REASON WHY (started at the summit on Sept. 11, 2010; 42,000 sold). By Dec 20, 2012 “Tornado” had sold 502,858 copies scanning GOLD at retail.

LBT first hit Top Country Albums with its debut self-titled set (No. 40, 2002), followed by The Road to Here (No. 12, 2006) and A Place to Land (No. 10, 2007), the first of the band’s five Top Country Albums top 10s.

For more news, tour dates, and information, please visit www.LittleBigTown.com. 


Tuesday, 28 February 2017

Little Big Town make history with sold out “Little Big Town At The Mother Church” Ryman Residency shows.


Grammy Award-winning vocal group Little Big Town launched their unprecedented year-long artist residency, “Little Big Town at the Mother Church,” from Nashville’s famed Ryman Auditorium this weekend with back-to-back, sold-out shows on Friday and Saturday evening.

The reigning CMA and ACM Vocal Group of the Year earned numerous standing ovations as they showcased their award-winning vocals during each nightly performance of their new album, The Breaker. The launch of “Little Big Town at the Mother Church” coincides with the world-wide release of Little Big Town’s seventh studio album, released February 24th, and marks the only time in the venue’s 125-year history to host a year-long artist residency.
Band members Karen Fairchild, Phillip Sweet, Kimberly Schlapman, and Jimi Westbrook’s took to the Ryman stage following support acts Brent Cobb (2/24) and Ashley Monroe (2/25) to debut their first, and only, live full-length album performances of The Breaker.  

After opening the show with the album’s “optimistic standout” (Sounds Like Nashville) “Happy People,” the band went on to perform every track on their new album from top to bottom– including their current chart-topping #1 song at country radio, “Better Man”–before later trading off lead vocals for several songs including “Beat Up Bible,” “When Someone Stops Loving You,” and the album’s title track, “The Breaker.”

The packed set list had the audience on their feet, singing along to every word of the band’s biggest hits, from “Pontoon” to “Girl Crush,” the thirteen week #1 Grammy-winning crossover hit that recently propelled Pain Killer to RIAA-Platinum-status, earning the group their third RIAA-Platinum album certification as a band.

Each evening’s special surprise guest appearances–an expected staple of future “Little Big Town at the Mother Church” dates—solicited enormous audience applause as breakout Country artists Sam Hunt and Chris Stapleton (2/24) and powerhouse vocalist Andra Day (2/25) joined Little Big Town on stage. At the close of each show, in contrast, the band earned a different reaction—complete reverence in the form of uninterrupted silence- as the band launched into an unexpected, completely acoustic encore, sans mics, aimed at paying homage to early Ryman Auditorium performances.
Special guest Andra Day joins Little Big Town on stage during the February 25th show of “Little Big Town at the Mother Church” at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Photo 1: L to R:  Jimi Westbrook, Karen Fairchild, Andra Day, Kimberly Schlapman and Phillip Sweet. Photo credit :Becky Fluke. 






















Saturday’s show also included an additional on-stage surprise, with the band’s announcement from the Ryman stage that a 10th “Little Big Town at the Mother Church” Ryman Residency date has been added for July 30th due to popular demand. Previously announced dates include May 19&20, July 28&29, September 15&16, and November 27th. Pre-sale tickets for the newly-announced date are available now through March 2nd at 10pm CT by visiting here: Ticketmaster.com. Tickets for the concerts will be $90.50, $60.50 and $50.50. Each ticket purchased to see Little Big Town at the Ryman includes one (1) physical album of Little Big Town’s new album, The Breaker, released February 24, 2017 on Capital Nashville. Visit www.littlebigtown.com/tour for more information.

Photo 2: L to R: Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman, Andra Day, Karen Fairchild and Phillip Sweet. Photo credit: Reid Long.























Little Big Town continue to earn early critical praise for The Breaker, having “expanded their audience beyond Tennessee” (USA Today) as well as “the definition of country music from the inside” (Newsday). The Los Angeles Times recently declared The Breaker “excellent” before highlighting Little Big Town as one of “only three acts that performed more than once at this year’s Grammy Awards. Reviewed as “a 21st century revival of Fleetwood Mac” (Goldderby), critics have identified The Breaker as a sweet spot, with Paste noting the album as “the band’s wheelhouse…they sound great” and Entertainment Weekly sharing high praise for the band’s latest studio project, giving the album an “A-” rating and noting “Little Big Town soar with new album…LBT’s glistening harmonies beam.”  Following the launch of “Little Big Town at the Mother Church,” the Associated Press also raved “Little Big Town momentum grows with Ryman residency.”

Little Big Town can next be seen performing on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on March 1st, and on The Talk on March 14th.

Little Big Town plus Seth Ennis
Multi Award Winning Little Big Town have announced an Autumn UK tour.
Thu 28th September 2017 - Albert Hall, Manchester (Peter Street, M2 5QR) £30.25 (£27.50 Ticket + £2.75 Fees)
Fri 29th Sept 2017 - O2 Institute, Birmingham (78 Digbeth High Street, B5 6DY) £30.80 (£27.50 Ticket + £3.30 Fees)
Sun 1st October 2017 - Royal Concert Hall/ Strathclyde Suite, Glasgow (Renfrew Street, G2 3NY)
Mon 2nd Oct 2017 - The Sage, Gateshead (St Mary's Square, Gateshead Quays, NE8 2JR) £30.25 (£27.50 Ticket + £2.75 Fees)
Tues 3rd Oct 2017 - Colston Hall/ Lantern, Bristol (Colston Street, BS1 5AR) Standing £30.25 (£27.50 Ticket + £2.75 Fees)
Thu 5th Oct 2017 - Royal Albert Hall, Kensington (Kensington Gore, SW7 2AP) Standing/Seating (£27.50/ £43.45 incl Fees)

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Little Big Town release their brand-new record, THE BREAKER, February 24th


Little Big Town’s new album THE BREAKER drops


Little Big Town's "The Breaker."
Photo Credit: Capitol Nashville Records

The collection, which features their now Hot Country Songs and Billboard Country Airplay No.1 single “Better Man,” was written and recorded during one of their busiest and most successful years to-date, so they were apparently not able to devote the time to write as many songs for it as they have for previous albums.

“We had an incredibly like creative year last year. I mean, we went from starting this record to making the Pharrell record, which was unexpected but such a joy and so creative in a different way than the records that we make with Jay [Joyce],” said LBT’s Karen Fairchild. “And so, we were writing, and then we were writing with Pharrell and then that ended up being a record. And then we were planning the tour and we went out on the road with Luke for 70 shows, and it just never stopped. And it was like all year long output, output, output of creative. And so yeah, the writing scenarios on the record might not look like they have on past records, but it was just the way it was going to happen. I mean, when you’re that busy it’s like the success also makes it difficult to like write all the time, because writing on the road is not the easiest thing in the world. You have a million distractions, and so there’s all kinds of things like getting focused. But we had also the blessing of having all of these incredible songs sent to us and they seemed to be piecing themselves together.”
The reigning ACM and CMA Vocal Group of the Year will begin their residency at the Ryman on Friday (February 24th). They’re expected to perform every song on their new album.

Promoting the new project Little Big Town were set to perform on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday (February 23rd). Watch it here

Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild Explains Why They Didn’t Write As Much For The Breaker, As They Have For Previous Albums.



LBT (songs for the album) Transcript: “We had an incredibly like creative year last year. I mean, we went from starting this record to making the Pharrell record, which was unexpected but such a joy and so creative in a different way than the records that we make with Jay [Joyce]. And so, we were writing, and then we were writing with Pharrell and then that ended up being a record. And then we were planning the tour and we went out on the road with Luke for 70 shows, and it just never stopped. And it was like all year long output, output, output of creative. And so yeah, the writing scenarios on the record might not look like they have on past records, but it was just the way it was going to happen. I mean, when you’re that busy it’s like the success also makes it difficult to like write all the time, because writing on the road is not the easiest thing in the world. You have a million distractions, and so there’s all kinds of things like getting focused. But we had also the blessing of having all of these incredible songs sent to us and they seemed to be piecing themselves together.”

When Someone Stops Loving You (Audio)



Little Big Town - The Breaker (Album Review)



Release Date: 24 February 2017
Title: The Breaker
Label: Decca / Liberty Records)
12 Tracks/ Time: 41:43

The Breaker track listing and credits:
1. "Happy People" (Lori McKenna, Hailey Whitters)
2. "Night on Our Side" (Jay Joyce, Jeremy Spillman, Phillip Sweet, Ryan Tyndell, Jimi Westbrook)
3. "Lost in California" (Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, Liz Rose)
4. "Free" (Barry Dean, Natalie Hemby, Luke Laird, Lori McKenna)
5. "Drivin' Around" (Kameron Alexander, David Embree, Audra Mae, Todd Spadafore)
6. "We Went to the Beach" (Matt Jenkins, Chase McGill, Laura Veltz)
7. "Better Man" (Taylor Swift)
8. "Rollin'" (Natalie Hemby, Phillip Sweet, Jimi Westbrook)
9. "Don't Die Young, Don't Get Old" (Karen Fairchild, Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, Liz Rose, Kimberly Schlapman)
10. "Beat Up Bible" (Cary Barlowe, Hillary Lindsey, Shane Stevens)
11. "When Someone Stops Loving You" (Hillary Lindsey, Chase McGill, Lori McKenna)
12. "The Breaker" (Connie Harrington, TJ Osborne)
4 pregrat-tracks were made available with pre-orders of ‘The Breaker’: ‘Better Man’, ‘Happy People’, ‘We Went To The Beach’ and ‘When Someone Stops Loving You’.

Musicians:
Jay Joyce: Bass, Composer, Drums, Engineer, Guitar (Electric), Keyboards, Mixing, Percussion, Producer, Programming
Jedd Hughes: Guitar
John Osborne: Guitar
Hubert Payne: Drums, Percussion
Phillip Sweet: Composer, Keyboards
John Thomasson: Bass
Evan Weatherford: Guitar

Last year the chart managers quite rightly deemed Little Big Town’s electronic diversion set WANDERLUST (Capitol Nashville) not to be classed as “country”. It arrived at No.105 on the Billboard 200 and #50 Top Albums with 5,700 pure sales. Instead of releasing a straight-up country/rock record, LBT dropped the collaborative project with Pharrell Williams. Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild said “The music feels like our worlds have collided in the best possible way - his infectious grooves paired with our layered vocals and harmonies. This music is meant to be danced to, sung along with and turned up loud. It's uplifting and hopeful”.
Previously to that their last “country” album PAIN KILLER (Capitol Nashville/UMGN) made a bow and peaked at No.7 on the Billboard 200 and #3 on Top Country albums Country) with 42,000 copies sold on its debut week. This was well short of the September 11, 2012 release of TORNADO which bowed with 112,800 copies sold. Painkiller was fuelled by the lead-off single “Day Drinking” becoming the group’s sixth top 10 (#4 Billboard Country Airplay) and then the #1 smash hit “Girl Crush” (writers Lori McKenna, Hillary Lindsey and Liz Rose) which snagged CMA Song and Single of the year in 2015 propelling the 4-piece group to stardom.

So, is THE BREAKER a genuine return to country? Well, there is little for the traditional country music fan to grab onto with the 12-track offering mostly reaching out to millennials.
The album kicks off with the chug-along bouncy opener “Happy People” written by top singer songwriters Lori McKenna and Hailey Whitters. The track with its purring Hammond interspersed with some faint steel smoothly rolls out some golden rules, as to how to put smiles on faces and finding true happiness. An art which is something to be cherished, learned and embraced in an ever-cruel and hurtful world: Here's to whatever what puts a smile on your face, Whatever makes you happy, people


“Night on Our Side" co-written by LBT members Phillip Sweet and Jimi Westbrook is something which forestalls that “we might live forever for a little while tonight” whilst bending the rules till dawn breaks. 
The Pop/Rock number is something like a hark back to the “Rumours”-era Fleetwood Mac underpinned with acoustic vibes of Christopher Cross’ “Sailing”

The wild abandon of the dreamy “Lost in California" penned by A-list hit songwriters Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna and Liz Rose paints some pretty colours and highlights Little Big Town’s key strength – those close harmonies. 

Those skills are magnified on the nostalgic driven “Free” which celebrates that the best things in life can’t be bought and are hard won.

Pointing its compass to a stadium rock crowd "Drivin' Around" penned by four outside writers, is rather muddied production wise laced with very modern digital sweetening and editing enrichment techniques.
CMA 2016 Backstage: Little Big Town & Taylor Swift
50th Annual CMA Awards 2 Nov 2016
Source: Taylor Swift/Instagram

The reflective “We Went to the Beach” has a pleasant laid back breezy feel recalling happy summer days. Lead-off single "Better Man" penned by Taylor Swift remains the album go-to standout and landed them a No.1 straight out of the blocks. A song which at first I had some reservations on, perfectly suits Karen Fairchild's vocal and just grows and grows on you – I just love it!



The guitar-driven “Rollin’ is a very rocky affair and musically hardly recalls a roadblock paradise, though stars in the sky shine brightly on another wistful number "Don't Die Young, Don't Get Old".
It’s not until the journey to track 10 when you feel the multi-award winning group truly begin to get back to their country roots. Kimberly Schlapman takes the lead vocal baton on the gentle acoustic driven “Beat Up Bible” where every line in the worn and dusty manuscript offers comfort and recalls precious memories.
Jimi Westbrook’s vocals take centre stage on the heart-breaking “When Someone Stops Loving You,” which rocks some soulful vibes where no switch can be flicked when struggling to get over a deep relationship and move on from a man’s perspective. In a reversal of roles on title cut and gentle paced album closer "The Breaker" (Jimi Westbrook lead vocal) is full of honest regret where no words can paper over those hurtful cracks depicting a sad tale of love gone wrong:
I wish I could give you what you needed, But you can't tell a heart how to feel, but I've tried to

Whilst Breaker offers those trademark classy LBT vocal harmonies and radio-friendly modern-country cuts it perhaps overall embraces a little too many elements of pop and rock.
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What others are saying:

Sounds Like Nashville (Rating: Positive).. All the while, Little Big Town’s ability as vocalists is showcased and the songs selected leave a lasting mark on the listener.
Mark Kennedy Associated Press The band — Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook and Phillip Sweet — do sound great. But to lift a line from one of their new songs, they seem to be “killing time when time won’t die”.

EW.com (Rating: A-) Although the rest of The Breaker may not be blessed with the T-Swizzle magic, there are some more strong contenders for your next breakup playlist.
Allmusic (Rating: 4 STARS) Little Big Town get back to basics on The Breaker, the de facto sequel to their 2014 blockbuster Pain Killer. ..Smoothness is a selling point with Little Big Town: their melodies slide, their harmonies glide, their music seems utterly at peace with the moment... the appeal of The Breaker: it's a confident pop record, one that celebrates sound as much as song.

Paste Magazine The group quickly settles into the tried and true, and they sound great doing it.
Rollingstone (Rating: 3 STARS) a back-to-basics country record that returns the spotlight to the group's unmatched ability to transform subtle Nashville lyricism into major pop drama – this time with no small assist from songwriters like Taylor Swift and industry scribes like Lori McKenna and Natalie Hemby....but The Breaker is the group's first record since their rise to stardom in which downtempo, more contemplative material completely outweighs the muscular, radio fodder like "Night on Our Side" and "Drivin' Around," songs that feel too vague in their worry-free escapism to sound convincing.

Newsday.com  (Rating: B+) But when you have the pick of Nashville’s best collaborators for your project, it’s no wonder that Little Big Town makes the most of it.

Nashville Over Here (Rating: Positive) the closing ballads pull back on the instrumentation throttle in favour of an adult-contemporary ambience, planting focus directly on applaudable lyrical content....Little Big Town are a commodity whose wide appeal has yet to translate to the transatlantic success they deserve. Especially given their attention towards UK audiences, it is a shock that their legions of edible material have not resulted in a radio hit here thus far. I like to think it’s only a matter of time. Their music is ageless, and it’s always easy to tell when you’re listening to Little Big Town.

Little Big Town plus Seth Ennis
Multi Award Winning Little Big Town have announced an Autumn UK tour:

Thu 28th September 2017 - Albert Hall, Manchester (Peter Street, M2 5QR) £30.25 (£27.50 Ticket + £2.75 Fees)
Fri 29th Sept 2017 - O2 Institute, Birmingham (78 Digbeth High Street, B5 6DY) £30.80 (£27.50 Ticket + £3.30 Fees)
Sun 1st October 2017 - Royal Concert Hall/ Strathclyde Suite, Glasgow (Renfrew Street, G2 3NY)
Mon 2nd Oct 2017 - The Sage, Gateshead (St Mary's Square, Gateshead Quays, NE8 2JR) £30.25 (£27.50 Ticket + £2.75 Fees)
Tues 3rd Oct 2017 - Colston Hall/ Lantern, Bristol (Colston Street, BS1 5AR) Standing £30.25 (£27.50 Ticket + £2.75 Fees)
Thu 5th Oct 2017 - Royal Albert Hall, Kensington (Kensington Gore, SW7 2AP) Standing/Seating (£27.50/ £43.45 incl Fees)

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