In his eighth album, and his best, the American songwriter pays tribute to his native Kansas through stripped-down texts devoid of superfluous instruments. The singer’s voice serves only lyrics and music: a delightful success.
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- Title: Little Wide Open
- Author: Kevin Morby
- Genre: Folk
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By Thomas Richet
Published May 15, 2026 at 09:26 Updated May 15, 2026 at 10:28
Welcoming you to the Midwest, where the sky knows everything, where you can finally rest until the tornado warning sirens harmoniously sing. From the first track, the beautiful “Badlands,” Kevin Morby sings of his native Kansas just as he leaves it for Los Angeles. An ambivalent tribute, made of hymns to its highways and the freedom they offer, but also a tale of the loneliness that grips the small towns of the Bible Belt. In the middle of its thirteen tracks, “100,000” sums up the discomfort of the singer: he moves from a portrait of ”pretty sisters” to ”You will take a plunge when.”
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