Name: If You Can't Forgive You Can't Love
Brand: John Jenkins

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

FR28CD

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-08-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Universal

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5031802066722

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

John Jenkins

Genre GB

Country / Americana

Label GB

Fretstore Records

<i>If You Can’t Forgive You Can’t Love</i> is the lyrical soundtrack to an insouciant road trip, soon darkened by thoughtsand memories, triggers and reminders of people and places long gone from our lives; a rollercoaster of emotions serving as a 2021 take on Woody Guthrie riding a boxcar. The themes of travel and transcending landscapes ofone’s life is prevalent throughout, embracing all characteristics and contradictions of lonesomeness, regret, sorrowand freedom. Welcomed early this year with its first single ‘Desert Hearts’, a sweeping saga of ever-changing landscapes which takes on contrasting themes of turbulence, reflection and solitude. Here, it is the album’s closer. With influences from John Prine to The Beatles, and Nanci Griffith to Bruce Springsteen, a key influence stands out here, with a reimagining of Townes Van Zandt’s ‘Kathleen’ continuing its prevalence on songs such as the sombre‘Living Someone Else’s Life’, a tale of regret told through the ache to relive past events and rediscover the emotions attached to them. Co-produced by John Jenkins and Jon Lawton (Sami Yusuf, Two Black Sheep).

If You Can't Forgive You Can't Love

Music GB