Old Flowers
The Arizona songwriter dims the porch light, kicks off her cowboy boots and pours her heart out for this intimate and stripped-back collection
Old Flowers finds Courtney Marie Andrews sombre but all the better for it
The break-up album could be its own genre of music, but these stories of severance can be told in many different ways. They can be as bombastic as Adele’s 21, as bitter as Marvin Gaye’s Here, My Dear, or a furious exposing of dirty laundry in the style of last week’s Gaslighter by The Chicks.
Intimacy has been a specialty of Courtney Marie Andrews since her 2008 debut, but the singer/songwriter raises the stakes on Old Flowers, her 2020 album, and second record for Fat Possum.
The thorn of a rose has nothing on Courtney Marie Andrews's ability to draw pain. Old Flowers, which follows 2018's May Your Kindness Remain...
In the pantheon of break-up albums, those that center around longer term relationships should wear the crown.
Songs of an achy breaky heart, but with real feeling. New music review by Liz Thomson