The immediacy is obvious, and the band stretch Yorkston’s reassuring vulnerability in new directions.
Yorkston is one of our finest talents, still stretching out.
It’s contagious joy to hear players with such abandon and intuition, braiding their lines together.
Simply putting a group of barely-familiars in a room together doesn't necessarily guarantee collaborative magic, but Yorkston & the Secondhand Orchestra complement each other's strengths well on this richly satisfying matchup.
What would be a fun Yorkston album becomes something more due to the presence of the orchestra.
Another fine installment in what has proven to be a highly inventive and engaging recording career from a singular talent.
The beauty of James Yorkston's The Wide, Wide River allows the coziness back in without making concessions to his continued development and desire to push beyond traditional folk music.