Turn Off The News (Build A Garden)

The son of Willie Nelson has led a charmed life, playing with Neil Young and inspiring Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born. His own band’s throwback roots-rock toes the line of escapism.

Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real kick off Turn Off the News, Build a Garden with "Bad Case," a pop tune powered by an incandescent jangle of riffs that evokes memories of the Byrds, or perhaps R.E.M. It's an appropriate opening salvo for a record that is lithe and bright, functioning in some ways as the flipside to the group's 2017 major-label debut for Fantasy.