Strawberry Mansion

Nashville-based singer-songwriter Langhorne Slim took a number of blows before making his 10th LP. In late 2019, he checked into an inpatient facility to work through substance abuse and clinical depression. In March 2020, a tornado tore through his neighborhood in East Nashville, critically injuring the local music industry mere days before COVID-19 would grind it to a halt entirely. And on top of that, he hadn\'t been able to write a song in over a year, and feared he might not be able to do so again. At the behest of a friend, Slim began writing a song a day, putting pen to paper whether he felt like it or not. That daily practice gave birth to *Strawberry Mansion*, which follows 2017\'s *Lost at Last, Vol. 1*. Langhorne\'s recent struggles populate much of the album, as on the apocalyptic opening track \"Mighty Soul\" and the reflective \"Morning Prayer.\"

The folk-rock singer/songwriter’s seventh record is an oxymoron: a hopeful pandemic album.