Spirit by Amos Lee

Spirit, Amos Lee's sixth album, came out on August 16, 2016, and it's a record of firsts: his first away from Blue Note, landing on the John Varvatos imprint of Republic Records instead, and the first time he sat in the producer's chair himself. The songwriting stayed in his hands as it always had, all thirteen tracks his own.

The songs sit where Lee has always lived, at the crossroads of folk, rock and soul, and running his own sessions gives the record an unhurried, lived-in warmth; "Vaporize" and "Running Out of Time" carry that easy glow. It followed Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song, and it opened at No. 3 on Billboard's Top Rock Albums chart on the strength of 12,000 sales in week one.

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