Album Of The Day: Nothing Left To Lose by Mat Kearney

Album Art of Mat Kearney's Nothing Left To Lose album - A color photo of a man moving toward the camera in a the middle of a dark field at night. There's some sort of light from behind the camera illuminating him and the ground of short, maybe brown-ish grass around him. But besides that, it's mostly black except for the sky is a bit more grey than the black ground that touches the skyline. In the top left, a parking lot with lights can be seen off in the distance. Printed above the photo in large letters across the middle in white is the artist's name, with the album title below it on three lines in alight brown color.

"Take it back to the beginning, back to the start / When gravity's pulling, you're still holding my heart / You come crashing down" Released 20 years ago today, this is the first major-label release from Mat Kearney, though about half of these songs appeared on the Bullet album 18 months earlier. Mat constructs beautiful songs of love and self-reflection, sometimes with an acoustic pop sensibility, and other times with a bit more of hip-hop vibe with spoken-word verses—a feature he mostly lost on later releases. The title track is still one of his most popular songs, and "Undeniable" has been a concert favorite for years. (For many years, he would insert a verse about playing the show tonight in your city at a show.) Two decades later, this is still some of this singer-songwriter's best work, from the opening of "Undeniable" to the end of "Won't Back Down", and it's an album that I definitely listen to often just as much today as I did when it released. I saw him play live before this album was released and have loved all his music he continues to make.

Release Year: 2006
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