The Lucky Ones

VINYL FORMAT. "I love songs and I love lyrics," Doug Keith states. "I don't believe in throwaway songs, and I am not convinced this single is the future. I love albums, and I love it when an artist or band thinks of an album as the thing itself, not just the vehicle for one or two songs." The New York singer/songwriter/guitarist more than lives up to those principles on The Lucky Ones, his second album under his own name. The eleven song collection demonstrates Keith's uncanny knack for capturing vividly intimate emotional truths in song. Keith weaves those truths into understatedly eloquent songs, which he delivers in a weathered, expressive voice - along with nimble, blues-rooted guitar work and organically layered arrangements that effortlessly convey the emotional immediacy of his compositions.