The party that White and Karen Elson threw to mark their divorce could have doubled as the launch event for Blunderbuss. It’s a celebration of the joys of being battered and bruised by love. The album was cut in Nashville, and that influence is apparent throughout: pedal steel guitar, fiddle, mandolin. There are fewer six-string pyrotechnics than you might expect – for much of the record White is strumming an acoustic – but killer cuts like the title track and the unhinged romp of “Sixteen Saltines” show that one of the most gifted songwriters of his generation has lost none of the dynamism of his many previous collaborations in taking center stage all by himself.

Key Tracks: “Blunderbuss,” “Sixteen Saltines,” “Love Interruption”