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Video: Oklahoma musician John Calvin Abney releases new album 'Safe Passage,' listen to the first track 'I Just Want to Feel Good' Oklahoma songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist John Calvin Abney released his second album in as many years Friday.  The seasoned musician's latest collection, "Safe Passage," debuted Friday on Black Mesa Records. He released his previous album, "Coyote," on the label in May 2018.  To buy and/or listen to "Safe Passage," click here.  Abney has spent nearly 10 years in the studio and on the road, both in making his own music and in service to the songs of other...

10 New Albums to Stream Today 3. John Calvin Abney: Safe Passage Singer/songwriter and in-demand multi-instrumentalist John Calvin Abney shares a new album today, Safe Passage, on Tulsa’s Black Mesa Records. The folk-leaning country crooner has toured with artists like John Moreland, Samantha Crain, and Lee Bains III + The Glory Fires over the last decade, but he more than holds his own as a solo artist. Safe Passage will carry you to straight to country/folk bliss. “Safe Passage is a collection of songs sewn together with familiar musical motifs, nostalgic reminders of tunes within tunes and a thread of...

Hear John Calvin Abney's Eclectic Statement of Positivity, 'Safe Passage' [Album Premiere] Like many of his talented peers operating under Americana's broad umbrella, John Calvin Abney doesn't limit himself to writing twangy, country-influenced songs, as heard on the far-reaching odyssey through his record collection titled Safe Passage. The album officially arrives tomorrow (Sept. 27) on Black Mesa Records, and it's streaming a day early via Wide Open Country. Safe Passage isn't a country-free zone by any means, considering that the whimsically western "Kind Days" and the steel guitar-laden trip down memory lane "Backwards Spring" meet all your traditionalist needs. Beyond...

John Calvin Abney’s ‘Safe Passage’ Chooses Compassion You don’t get to play on 29 albums within six years on flash alone. John Calvin Abney’s greatest asset — as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter — is his ability to surrender to the song. It’s what’s paired him with artists as varied as Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires, Porter and the Bluebonnet Rattlesnakes, and fellow Oklahomans M Lockwood Porter, Samantha Crain, and John Moreland. Though Abney’s perfectly capable of guitar pyrotechnics, his solo material favors gentle, contemplative compositions. Safe Passage finds Abney at the crossroads of self-compassion and self-doubt, and...