Barbara CD (Signed)
Old Dominion’s sixth album, Barbara, is a 13-track journey that blends their signature melodic, guitar-driven sound with deeper reflections on life, love, and mortality. Known for crafting unforgettable hooks, the band leans into more mature themes without losing their optimistic spirit, exploring the highs and lows of life with honesty and heart. From the opener “Making Good Time,” with its phased pre-chorus and tumbling drums that sweeps from youthful ardor to moving through life, recognizing the purity in coming of age and how it shapes who we become, the Shane McAnally/Old Dominion-produced album seeks to understand the way life and love can rise and fall. It’s the euphoria seeing a certain kind of free-spirited woman can induce on “Break Your Mama’s Heart,” the rhythmic philosophy of what it all means with “Water My Flowers” and the elegy for a good friend found in “Miss You Man.” “The thing about this crazy career, so many incredible things have happened, but so much life has als