The debut album from Australia’s Wes Carr, aka Buffalo Tales, is called Roadtrip Confessions.

As you might expect from a title like that, it is a collection of songs inspired by travels and travails from the road – tales of loves lost and found, the search for happiness and salvation, and the restlessness of rambling spirits. It is an album from a true storyteller, honestly recorded simply with guitar, voice and a few trusted friends delivering raw, ragged vocals over alternately rollicking and delicate folk arrangements.

Amongst those friends are rising Scottish songstress Rachael Sermanni and Swedish folksters Baskery – both of whom provide guest vocals on tracks on the album, while he’s also given two covers his own spin: the Leonard Cohen classic Take This Waltz and Rihanna’s Diamonds. 

Roadtrip Confessions gets a worldwide release today. Watch/listen to Amsterdam below.

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