Seth Walker – Why The Worry
Seth Walker – Why The Worry
Format: CD – Vinyl LP – Digital
Label: Royal Potato Family
Release: 2025
Release date: April 4, 2025
In the midst of recording his 12th album ‘Why The Worry’, wavering in his resolve to finish what he’d started, Seth Walker came to the realization: “This does not define me; this is not who I am forever; this is just a moment.”
“Distance colors compositions over the years and each album is left as merely a reflection of its own period in time.”
The new album finds Walker reunited with old friends and familiar names. Once again Jano Rix steps behind the boards, co-producing the album with Seth and engineer Brook Sutton. In the producer’s fifth outing he’s become an invaluable sounding board, the kind that knows what’s missing and, just as importantly, what needs to be taken away.
Oliver Wood (The Wood Brothers) lends a pen to the title track and Seth’s classically trained father Scott adds strings to “I’m Getting Ready,” a song penned by Walker’s contemporary Michael Kiwanuka. Mostly, though, the record was shepherded into shape by Walker’s trio, rounded out by longtime confidants Rhees Williams (Guitar, Piano) and Mark Raudabaugh (Drums).
The three let the studio guide them, entering without agenda, set straight by the title’s mantra to stop worrying where they’d end up.
Website: https://sethwalker.com/
Tracks:
01. The Same Love That Made Me Laugh (4:27)
02. Why The Worry (3:42)
03. Up On The Mountain (3:15)
04. I’m Getting Ready (2:59)
05. Take Me To The River (4:14)
06. Supernatural Thing (3:08)
07. Hey Baby (2:53)
08. Midway Girl (3:20)
09. Somewhere Out There (2:39)
10. Magnolia (3:57)
11. I Must Be In A Good Place Now (3:04)
Line-up:
Seth Walker – Vocals & Guitars
Rhees Williams – Acoustic, Electric Bass, Piano, & Background Vocals
Mark Raudabaugh Jr. – Drums & Percussion
Jano Rix – Drums, Percussion, Rhodes, B3 Organ, Synth, Piano, Vibraphone, & Background Vocals
Matt Glassmeyer – Tenor & Baritone Sax
Kelley Mickwee – Backround Vocals
JP Ruggieri – Slide Guitar on “Hey Baby”
Steve Mackey – Electric Bass on “Magnolia”
Brook Sutton – Electric Bass on “Supernatural Thing”