Breakfast Alone Little Bandit

• 1 Bed of Bad Luck 03:27
• 2 Pitiful Heart 03:52
• 3 Nashville 03:52
• 4 Money 02:29
• 5 Platform Shoes 02:41
• 6 Comfort Inn 01:49
• 7 Diana 02:18
• 8 Scattered and Smothered 03:00
• 9 Drinkin' at the Bar 02:52
• 10 Get Me out of It 03:28
• 11 Sinking 03:29
• Total Runtime 33:17

Info for Breakfast Alone

Debut album from Nashville's Little Bandit. Like Margo Price, Alex Caress, the lead singer of Little Bandit, has been playing in a rotating cast of East Nashville bands and touring outfits for roughly the past decade. His group s formal debut, Breakfast Alone, recorded with a band of local aces like Kevin Black and Luke Schneider, is an impressive set of burlesque country and graceful roots-pop. Caress, who plays keyboards, explores the inner workings of his adopted hometown throughout this ornate collection of 11 songs, bemoaning its dispiriting power structures ( Money ), trying in vain to escape its endless heatwaves (Sinking), and paying bittersweet tribute to its ever-changing scenery (Nashville).

"Breakfast Alone is a culmination of years honing in on a sound that merges country and gospel motifs, rooted in strong lyricism, a dash of subversion and the ability to praise honesty – through both personal and musical truths – above all else, draped in melodies that dance away the despair." (Rolling Stone)

"On their debut album, Little Bandit show that in country music, dry sarcasm and irony can go hand in hand with old-fashioned heartbreak." (American Songwriter)

"Alex Caress' own music recalls both Dolly Parton and Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields. It's highly evocative and slightly hilarious. In Little Bandit, he offers an openly queer perspective on classic country music and the themes of heartache, big dreams and drinking at the bar." (NPR, World Cafe)

Little Bandit:
Alex Caress, lead vocals, keyboards
Kevin Black, bass, vocals
Luke Schneider, pedal steel
Eric Whitman, guitar, vocals
Ben Eyestone, drums
With:
Larissa Maestro, cello, vocals
Jordan Caress, vocals
Caitlin Rose, vocals
Mark Fredson, vocals
Zach Casebolt, violin
Diego Vasquez, trombone
Kirk Donovan, trumpet

Little Bandit
This journey of life can be a long and difficult path wrecked by heartache, lamentable decisions and hopelessness. While the specifics may be unique, the pains are universal. Country Music has long served as a songwriting tool to bind us through these hardships; choosing to embrace these common hurdles rather than shy away from them.

On Little Bandit's debut full-length, Breakfast Alone, these tenants of the genre are embraced wholeheartedly. Aurally, frontman and primary songwriter Alex Caress provides plenty of vocal twang and driving piano accompanied by his backing bands rolling bass and swirling pedal steel. Lyrically, Caress skillfully takes on the task of weaving tales of heartache, stories of loves lost and occasionally putting on a knowing grin to espouse the gleeful weariness of alcoholism.

When done right, the traditional country experience is one of comradery and fellowship as you imbibe in life's shared difficulties. No one has the answers but Little Bandit's ability to bond us through reflection is carrying on a time honored tradition the likes of Sturgill Simpson, Margo Price, George Jones and Tammy Wynette would approve of.

This album contains no booklet.