Available on Vinyl, CD, and Digital download via The Orchard - https://orcd.co/abeloveinthedark

This is a collection of recordings that I made between 2018 - 2021. Some of these songs were initially intended to be released in 2020, then the plague of our times rearranged our plans, our lives, and the entire direction of my artistic career. Finally, here in 2023, after a couple of years of the type of contemplation and reflection that I believe can only be born in the heart of an artist trying not only to survive but to create something meaningful amidst the most perilous of times... I offer you these songs.

1. Love in the Dark
2. Abe Partridge's 403d Freakout
3. When You Go Down
4. Young Love (Alabama Skies)
5. Coffee on the Counter
6. Alabama Astronauts
7. Fake It 'Till You Make It *only on CD/Digital Bonus Tracks
8. Helter Skelter
9. Pop Country is for Posers *only on CD/Digital Bonus Tracks
10. Look Up
11. Simplicity

All these songs were recorded with Shawn Byrne at Great Hill Studio, Nashville, TN with exception of "When You Go Down" recorded at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name, Middlesboro, KY with Ferrill Gibbs. All songs produced by Shawn Byrne. Songs written by Abe Partridge except for "When You Go Down" by Betty Jean Robinson. Rythm guitar, vocals - Abe Partridge Bass, mandolin, lead guitar, soundscapes - Shawn Byrne Key, vocals - Emily Sholes Smith Cello - Brian Sutherland Backing vocals on "When You Go Down" - Cassy Coots Backing vocals on "Young Love (Alabama Skies)" - Molly Thomas Snare - John Hall "Look Up" features an audio recording of my sweet Mamaw, Velma Padgett - Rest in Peace Inside Photo by - Stephen "Andy" Anderson Art - cover by Ronny Criss and Abe Partridge Back by - Abe Partridge Formatting by - Cathy Partridge Official release date - May 12, 2023 Record Label - Baldwin County Public Records ©2023 Abe Partridge

(Official release date: November 19, 2021)

" 20 years of making music and it’s only natural to start thinking you’ve seen it all, done it all. By the time you’ve witnessed ten thousand men take to the stage with an acoustic guitar to sing about their feelings, you can easily get to the impression that whether magnificent or mediocre they’re all to some degree just recycling the schtick of Bob Dylan, James Taylor or any number of whiskey-sodden bluesmen. Then one rainy night in the Netherlands I saw Abe Partridge take to the stage with an acoustic guitar and it felt like the first time anybody ever thought to try it. He didn’t just sing his songs, he set fire to them. It was brutal and tender and smart and angry and funny and brilliantly, uniquely authentic. I saw it as a magnificent reminder that great songs, delivered with honest intensity were what first made me want to do any of this in the first place. So inviting Abe to tour the UK became an act of civic duty. I wanted to share this gift with my fellow citizens. The series of performances he gave enraptured audiences everywhere we went and I feel truly grateful for the nineteen October evenings we spent playing our music and telling our stories. I hope we will do it again someday." - David Ford

1. Out of Alabama (London)
2. Not Teacher Blues (London)
3. Undisclosed Location in Southwest Asia Killing Floor Blues (London)
4. Preaching the Blues (London)
5. Abe Partridge's 403d Freakout (London)
6. Colors (London)
7. Black Flag T-Shirt Lament (Sheffield)
8. Get Thee Behind Me, Hippie (Shoreham)
9. Our Babies Will Never Grow Up to be Astronauts (Sheffield)
10. White Trash Lipstick (Hebden Bridge)

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