Read Our Live Review: Pistol Annies Enthrall at Jubilant Ryman Auditorium Show The result, from the housewife harmony blues on ‘Best Years of My Life’ to Lambert’s haunting post-divorce balladry on ‘Masterpiece,’ is a sharply-rendered sketch of bruised hearts and shaken souls that amounts to the group’s most moving work to date.” But unlike past efforts, where the narratives were mostly distant character sketches and the messy difficulties portrayed therein relied on a heavy dose of dark country humor, the songs on Interstate Gospel convey a much more intimate personal urgency.
Their songs are populated by men and women struggling with prescription medication, marriage, mid-life crises, malaise and marijuana. On paper, the Annies’ latest, like its predecessors, focuses on the type of small-town domestic drama the group has become known for. “The Pistol Annies’ solution? Doubling down on the roots-blend they’ve honed over the better part of the past decade, merging Ashley Monroe’s East TN bluegrass roots, Angaleena Presley’s hardscrabble Kentucky country-rock and Miranda Lambert’s Texas honky-tonk. “The ethos of the Pistol Annies, who steep their classicist country - rife with despair and misfortune - in rootsy arrangements, has not been welcomed within the mainstream confines of the genre in some time,” writes Jonathan Bernstein. EDITOR’S PICK: Pistol Annies, Interstate Gospel
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