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About Mabelle
From the very first note of MABELLE, Atkins' debut album for HighTone Records, it's obvious that a very gifted and utterly Texan talent has emerged here. Produced by former Kasey Chambers sideman Kym Warner and featuring the cream of Austin's considerable crop of talented players, Mabelle is a work of impressive depth and maturity by a young artist that augurs well for his future. Within its 12 songs, 11 of them self-composed, one can feel and see the life and people in a small Texas town as vividly as spending a Saturday night at the local honky-tonk. Opening with its title track, a two-stepping barroom tale about a good girl gone sad, the album is redolent with the fresh peaches, horses, railroad tracks, pick-up trucks and grass down by the creek found in the Lone Star State. In addition to swooning songs of love Atkins draws inspiration from his life growing up in North Texas. A great uncle who hit the Normandy beach as a fresh-faced 17-year-old on D-Day inspired "Another Place and Time", while the story of his grandparents who grew up on opposite sides of the Red River and ran off to get married is told in "Rivers and Pines." On "Every Time You Turn Around," the rural boy who thought his hometown was "small and boring" returns after some years away to find it "cool and unique." And throughout the album, one finds the shuffles, two-steps, ballads, swing numbers and country rocking that are the soundtrack to life throughout Texas.
