Kids in the Street (Justin Townes Earle album)

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Kids in the Street
Justin Townes Earle - Kids in the Street album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Justin Townes Earle
ReleasedMay 26, 2017 (2017-05-26)
Recorded2017
StudioARC Studios [1]
Omaha, Nebraska
Genre Country
Length42:46
Label New West Records
Producer Mike Mogis
Justin Townes Earle chronology
Absent Fathers
(2015)		Kids in the Street
(2017)		 The Saint of Lost Causes
(2019)
Singles from Kids in the Street
  1. "Champagne Corolla"
    Released: March 2, 2017 [2]

Kids in the Street is the seventh studio album by Justin Townes Earle, released on May 26, 2017 on New West Records. It is the first album Earle recorded outside of his hometown of Nashville; [3] Kids in the Street was recorded with first-time collaborator [4] and producer Mike Mogis at ARC Studios in Omaha, Nebraska. The album is the third and final part of a trilogy, following Earle's Single Mothers  (2014) and Absent Fathers  (2015). [5] [3] Kids in the Street is Earle's first release on New West Records. [4] The first single from the album was "Champagne Corolla", featuring a lyric video directed by Tom Kirk. [6]

Contents

Earle noted the upbeat tone of the album, saying in an interview that he "got married and am getting ready to become a father ... this is the first record that I've written since I've been married. There's definitely an uplifting aspect to this record in a lot of ways, because I'm feeling pretty positive ... this record's more about looking outward on what's happening, and writing about subjects like gentrification and inner city strife. [Kids in the Street] also has more of a soul influence to it, and it's got a deeper connection to the blues than anything I've done before." [7]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 78% [8]
Review scores
SourceRating
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]
NPR positive [9]
New NoiseStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [10]
BlurtStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Paste8.7/10 [6]
Glide Magazinepositive [7]

Kids in the Street received fairly positive reviews from music critics. Rolling Stone gave the album three-and-a-half stars out of five, writing that the album "always feels organic, never mannered ... Earle [waxes] nostalgic for a childhood in the 1990s with a timelessness that could conjure the 1890s just as well". [5] The Guardian noted a "quiet contentment" in the music, instead of the "bleakness" found on Single Mothers and Absent Fathers. [3] NPR credited Mike Mogis's production for adding "appealingly unexpected textures" to the songs, [9] while Paste Magazine said that Earle "walk[s] the line between tradition and his own modernity". [6] New Noise praised the album's "versatile offering of country, folk, blues, jazz[,] and soulful rock". Blurt wrote that Kids in the Street is "just as charming and powerful as [Single Mothers and Absent Fathers]". [4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Justin Townes Earle

No.TitleLength
1."Champagne Corolla"3:38
2."Maybe A Moment"3:06
3."What's She Crying For"3:54
4."15-25"4:03
5."Kids in the Street"3:53
6."Faded Valentine"3:45
7."What's Goin' Wrong"3:25
8."Short Hair Woman"2:50
9."Same Old Stagolee" (version of "Stagger Lee" [9] [2] )3:42
10."If I Was the Devil"2:35
11."Trouble Is"3:22
12."There Go a Fool"4:33

Personnel

Main band

Additional musicians

Production

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