John Jenkins - If You Can't Forgive You Can't Love

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: FR28CD
Barcode: 5031802066722
Release Date: 06 Aug 2021
Genre: Jazz

'‘If You Can’t Forgive You Can’t Love’ is the lyrical soundtrack to an insouciant road trip, soon darkened by thoughtsand memories, triggers and reminders of people and places long gone from our lives; a rollercoaster of emotionsserving as a 2021 take on Woody Guthrie riding a boxcar. The themes of travel and transcending landscapes ofone’s life is prevalent throughout, embracing all characteristics and contradictions of lonesomeness, regret, sorrowand freedom. Welcomed early this year with its first single ‘Desert Hearts’, a sweeping saga of ever-changinglandscapes which takes on contrasting themes of turbulence, reflection and solitude. Here, it is the album’s closer.With influences from John Prine to The Beatles, and Nanci Griffith to Bruce Springsteen, a key influence stands outhere, with a reimagining of Townes Van Zandt’s ‘Kathleen’ continuing its prevalence on songs such as the sombre‘Living Someone Else’s Life’, a tale of regret told through the ache to relive past events and rediscover the emotionsattached to them. Co-produced by John Jenkins and Jon Lawton (Sami Yusuf, Two Black Sheep).