The Bros. Landreth

★★★★ Come Morning BIRTHDAY CAKE. CD/DL/LP

Winnipeg, Canada-based siblings lace their rootsy country with blue-eyed soul. If there’s more than a smidge of Hall & Oates about Come Morning’s

heady opener Stay, it figures. John Oates was reportedly so taken with Joey and David Landreth’s stuff that he offered to support them live. Burnished to a fine shine with trusted co-producer Murray Pulver, the siblings’ third LP also seems fruitfully cognisant of The Neville Brothers (see title track), Diamonds &

Pearls-era Prince (Corduroy), and the forward-looking guitar stylings of Blake Mills (You Don’t Know Me). But best of all is the down-tempo train-beat of Don’t Feel Like Crying, wherein the exquisite voices of Joey Landreth and guest backing vocalist Leith Ross conjure Don Henley duetting with kd lang. Mellifluously smooth – and the fruit of muchimproved Landreth relations following David’s 2016-2019 band-halting sabbatical –

Come Morning feels like a whole new dawn.

James McNair