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The Last Resort
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ReleasedJuly 16, 2021
GenreCountry, Neotraditional Country
Length17:07
LabelBig Machine Records
ProducerDann Huff
Shane McAnally
Josh Osborne
Midland chronology
The Sonic Ranch
(2021)
The Last Resort
(2021)
The Last Resort: Greetings From
(2022)
Singles from The Last Resort
  1. "Sunrise Tells The Story"
    Released: August 30, 2021

The Last Resort is the second EP released by American country music band Midland. The EP includes the singles "Sunrise Tells the Story", "And Then Some", "Take Her Off Your Hands", "Adios Cowboy" and "Two To Two Step". It was released through Big Machine Records, and produced by Dann Huff, Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne.[1] The EP was expanded into a full album, The Last Resort: Greetings From, which was released in 2022.

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Country music

Country music

Country is a music genre originating in the Southern and Southwestern United States. First produced in the 1920s, country primarily focuses on working class Americans and blue-collar American life.

Midland (band)

Midland (band)

Midland is an American country music group formed in 2014 in Dripping Springs, Texas. The band members are Mark Wystrach, Jess Carson, and Cameron Duddy. Through Big Machine Records, the band has released two EPs, their self-titled EP and The Last Resort. They have released three studio albums, On the Rocks, Let It Roll and The Last Resort: Greetings From, which have accounted for seven charted singles on the Billboard country chart: "Drinkin' Problem", Burn Out", "Make a Little", "Mr. Lonely", "Cheatin' Songs", "Sunrise Tells the Story" and "Longneck Way to Go". Midland's musical style is known as neotraditional country.

Big Machine Records

Big Machine Records

Big Machine Records is an American independent record label, distributed by Universal Music Group. Specializing in country and pop artists, Big Machine is based on Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee. The label was founded in September 2005 by former DreamWorks Records executive Scott Borchetta and became a joint venture between Borchetta and country singer Toby Keith. The company concentrates on publishing, management, and merchandising and oversees imprints, such as Valory Music, that are part of the Big Machine Label Group. Taylor Swift was the first client of the label.

Dann Huff

Dann Huff

Dann Lee Huff is an American record producer, studio musician and songwriter. For his work as a producer in the country music genre, he has won several awards, including the Musician of the Year award in 2001, 2004, and 2016 at the Country Music Association Awards and the Producer of the Year award in 2006 and 2009 at the Academy of Country Music. He is the father of American singer and songwriter Ashlyne Huff and brother of Giant and White Heart drummer David Huff.

Shane McAnally

Shane McAnally

Shane McAnally is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer. Originally a solo artist for Curb Records in 1999, McAnally charted three singles on Hot Country Songs, including the No. 31 "Are Your Eyes Still Blue". McAnally left the country music business in 2000 and returned in 2006 as a songwriter, having initial success on that front with "Last Call" by Lee Ann Womack. He began working as a producer in 2013 with Kacey Musgraves' debut album Same Trailer Different Park. From the early 2010s onward, McAnally has worked almost exclusively as a songwriter and producer.

Josh Osborne

Josh Osborne

Josh Osborne is an American songwriter with several number-one singles to his credit.

The Last Resort: Greetings From

The Last Resort: Greetings From

The Last Resort: Greetings From is the third studio album by American country music group Midland. An expansion of their 2021 extended play The Last Resort, the album is their first since 2018's Let It Roll and was released on May 6, 2022, via Big Machine Records. Produced by Midland's longtime team of Shane McAnally, Dan Huff and Josh Osborne, the album was preceded by the singles "Sunrise Tells the Story" and "Longneck Way to Go", which features Jon Pardi.

Background

The EP was recorded during the Coronavirus pandemic and the band has said that these songs may appear on their third studio album, that is yet to be announced. Along with the EP, Midland announced The Last Resort Tour to promote the new EP.

Critical reception

The EP received generally positive reviews from critics. Mark Wiggins from Six Shooter Country gave the EP a 7 out of 10, and said that the EP seems to drift more towards mainstream and is a development in Midland's sound.[2] James Daykin from Lyric Magazine said "we see the band experimenting with a more chilled, laid back Eagles-like vibe", and gave the EP a generally positive review.[3]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."And Then Some"3:26
2."Sunrise Tells The Story"
3:28
3."Two to Two Step"
  • Carson
  • Duddy
  • Wystrach
  • McAnally
  • Osborne
3:20
4."Take Her Off Your Hands"
  • Carson
  • Duddy
  • Wystrach
  • Matthew
  • McAnally
  • Osborne
3:14
5."Adios Cowboy"
3:38

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Cameron Duddy

Cameron Duddy

Cameron Duddy is an American music video director and musician. As a director, he is known for his work with Bruno Mars, OneRepublic, and Fifth Harmony. He is also the bass guitarist in the country music band Midland.

Mark Wystrach

Mark Wystrach

Mark Wystrach is an American country music musician and actor. He is the lead singer of the country band Midland.

Shane McAnally

Shane McAnally

Shane McAnally is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer. Originally a solo artist for Curb Records in 1999, McAnally charted three singles on Hot Country Songs, including the No. 31 "Are Your Eyes Still Blue". McAnally left the country music business in 2000 and returned in 2006 as a songwriter, having initial success on that front with "Last Call" by Lee Ann Womack. He began working as a producer in 2013 with Kacey Musgraves' debut album Same Trailer Different Park. From the early 2010s onward, McAnally has worked almost exclusively as a songwriter and producer.

Josh Osborne

Josh Osborne

Josh Osborne is an American songwriter with several number-one singles to his credit.

Jessi Alexander

Jessi Alexander

Jessica Leigh Alexander is an American country music artist and songwriter.

Marv Green

Marv Green

Marv Green is an American country music songwriter. He is known for co-writing Lonestar's 1999 single "Amazed", which reached number 1 on both the Hot Country Songs and Billboard Hot 100 charts. This song won him a Song of the Year award from Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI).

J. T. Harding

J. T. Harding

John Thomas "J.T." Harding is an American country music songwriter. He has written songs for artists such as Uncle Kracker, Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban and Darius Rucker.

Personnel

Adapted from liner notes.[4]

Midland

Additional Musicians

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Acoustic guitar

Acoustic guitar

An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, resonating through the air in the body, and producing sound from the sound hole. The original, general term for this stringed instrument is guitar, and the retronym 'acoustic guitar' distinguishes it from an electric guitar, which relies on electronic amplification. Typically, a guitar's body is a sound box, of which the top side serves as a sound board that enhances the vibration sounds of the strings. In standard tuning the guitar's six strings are tuned (low to high) E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4.

Cameron Duddy

Cameron Duddy

Cameron Duddy is an American music video director and musician. As a director, he is known for his work with Bruno Mars, OneRepublic, and Fifth Harmony. He is also the bass guitarist in the country music band Midland.

Bass guitar

Bass guitar

The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length, and typically four to six strings or courses. Since the mid-1950s, the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music.

Mark Wystrach

Mark Wystrach

Mark Wystrach is an American country music musician and actor. He is the lead singer of the country band Midland.

Dave Cohen (keyboardist)

Dave Cohen (keyboardist)

David Ross Cohen is a Canadian-born musician and producer based out of Nashville, Tennessee. Cohen is a keyboardist who has recorded with Florida Georgia Line, Carrie Underwood, Kid Rock, Steven Tyler, and Reba McEntire. Throughout his career, he has accumulated several awards including Academy of Country Music Keyboard Player of the Year 2017 2019 & 2021 and Music Row All-Star Keyboards Player in 2018 & 2020. Over the course of his tenure in Nashville, Cohen has played on more than sixty #1 songs.

Mellotron

Mellotron

The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which pushes a length of magnetic tape against a capstan, which pulls it across a playback head. As the key is released, the tape is retracted by a spring to its initial position. Different portions of the tape can be played to access different sounds.

Piano

Piano

The piano is a keyboard instrument with strings struck by wooden hammers coated with a softer material. It is played using its keyboard, which is a row of keys touched by the performer with the fingers and thumbs of both hands, causing the hammers to strike the strings. It was invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700.

Keyboard instrument

Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital pianos. Other keyboard instruments include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, and carillons, which are usually housed in bell towers or belfries of churches or municipal buildings.

Paul Franklin (musician)

Paul Franklin (musician)

Paul V. Franklin is an American multi-instrumentalist, known mainly for his work as a steel guitarist. He began his career in the 1970s as a member of Barbara Mandrell's road band; in addition he toured with Vince Gill, Mel Tillis, Jerry Reed and Dire Straits. He has since become a prolific session musician in Nashville, playing on more than 500 albums. He has been named by the Academy of Country Music as Best Steel Guitarist on several occasions. He was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 2000 and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019. With thirty, Franklin is the most nominated person in CMA history and is notable for having been nominated for the Country Music Association Award for Musician of the Year twenty nine times but has yet to win.

Dann Huff

Dann Huff

Dann Lee Huff is an American record producer, studio musician and songwriter. For his work as a producer in the country music genre, he has won several awards, including the Musician of the Year award in 2001, 2004, and 2016 at the Country Music Association Awards and the Producer of the Year award in 2006 and 2009 at the Academy of Country Music. He is the father of American singer and songwriter Ashlyne Huff and brother of Giant and White Heart drummer David Huff.

Electric guitar

Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals, which ultimately are reproduced as sound by loudspeakers. The sound is sometimes shaped or electronically altered to achieve different timbres or tonal qualities from that of an acoustic guitar via amplifier settings or knobs on the guitar. Often, this is done through the use of effects such as reverb, distortion and "overdrive"; the latter is considered to be a key element of electric blues guitar music and jazz and rock guitar playing. Designs also exist combining attributes of the electric and acoustic guitars: the semi-acoustic and acoustic-electric guitars.

Greg Morrow

Greg Morrow

Greg Morrow is an American drummer, percussionist, session musician, mixing engineer, and vocalist.

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References
  1. ^ "Midland on Checking Into 'The Last Resort' for New EP & Being 'A Country Grateful Dead' On the Road". Billboard. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
  2. ^ "Midland – The Last Resort EP Review". Six Shooter Country. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
  3. ^ "Review: 'The Last Resort' EP from Midland Sees The Trio Evolving from 'Urban Cowboys' into Laurel Canyon Troubadours as They Add a Californian Edge to Their Texan Twang". Lyric Magazine. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
  4. ^ The Last Resort (CD booklet). Midland. Big Machine Records. 2021. none.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

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