Chris Eckman - The Land We Knew Best

Released 24th January 2025

Chris Eckman is one of those songwriters with the alchemists touch. Hes proved it over the years as the songwriter of the Seattle rock-folk band The Walkabouts, as well as across a lauded six album solo career. His songs have been recorded by Townes Van Zandt, Steve Wynn, Willard Grant Conspiracy (and others), and his last album, the spare, haunted Where the Spirit Rests, won the prestigious German Record Critics Award (Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik) in 2021. Three and a half years later hes back with The Land We Knew the Best, and new stories to tell.

Yet this isnt just a continuation, its not the same character. Time has passed, but maybe moreimportantly, the geography has altered. The songs on The Land We Knew the Best arent populated by the broken people and tumbledown, raw landscapes of the American West that has been the setting for much of his previous work. Hes lived in Ljubljana, Slovenia for m