Elijah Ocean Previews New Album Born Blue With the Nineties Country Rave-Up Thirty-Five – Rolling Stone

With its Alan Jackson guitar twang and some dreamy pedal steel, Elijah Oceans new song Thirty-Five is straight out of a Nineties jukebox. The rambling singer-songwriter and Maine native, who landed in Nashville after detours in Brooklyn and L.A., released the song on Monday as the first taste of his upcoming album Born Blue.

Ocean taps into Rodney Crowell territory with the lyrics, evoking an I Aint Living Long Like This message with his own tale of regret and regression. Im thirty-five, acting twenty-two/I dont know how Im still alive living the way I do, he sings. Way past my prime and long overdue, Im thirty-five, acting twenty-two. Ocean wrote Thirty-Five, which features Brent Mason on guitar, in a Las Vegas hotel room while licking his wounds from a beating at the blackjack tables.

Born Blue is the follow-up to Oceans 2020 album Blue Jeans & Barstools, a record that included another song born of a gambling bust: Cleaned Up in Vegas detailed Oceans attempts to grow up and get straight after losing his wallet. Judging by Thirty-Five, however, those efforts failed.

Heres the track list for Oceans Born Blue:

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Elijah Ocean Previews New Album Born Blue With the Nineties Country Rave-Up Thirty-Five - Rolling Stone