Country

Among the English language's premier phrase-turners with music relevant to any age, the late great John Prine was part of the Atlantic Records family for four albums before he jumped over to Asylum for another three records and eventually his own label Oh Boy. 1978's Bruised Orange served as Prine's fifth album and first with Asylum. Produced by friend and fellow Chicagoan Steve Goodman of which Prine noted, "I totally put it in his hands and he handed me back a beautiful record," the acoustic-driven pop-folk rock affair is warm, imaginative and humorous in all the right places with "Fish and Whistle" and "Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow)" among the finest songs of his brilliant career.

1. Fish and Whistle
2. There She Goes
3. If You Don't Want My Love
4. That's the Way That the World Goes 'Round
5. Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow)
6. Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone
7. Aw Heck
8. Crooked Piece of Time
9. Iron Ore Betty
10. The Hobo Song

STURGILL SIMPSON - HIGH TOP MOUNTAIN - 10 Year Anniversary Edition of Sturgill Simpson's debut album, High Top Mountain. The anniversary edition includes an "Old King Coal" blacked-out album cover with a glossy embossed jacket and is pressed on translucent black vinyl. Sturgill Simpson's authenticity stands out like an island of hope in a sea of tacky. Pure and uncompromising, devoid of gloss and fakery. High Top Mountain's dozen instant classics evoke the sound of timeless country in it's many guises and brings back the lyrical forthrightness and depth that permeated the music Simpson absorbed during his Kentucky childhood. Bonafide mountain hillbilly soul, as pure as you are going to find anywhere.

• 1 Life Ain't Fair and the World Is Mean
• 2 Railroad of Sin
• 3 Water in a Well
• 4 Sitting Here Without You
• 5 The Storm
• 6 You Can Have the Crown
• 7 Time After All
• 8 Hero
• 9 Some Days
• 10 Old King Coal
• 11 Poor Rambler
• 12 I'd Have to Be Crazy

Hot on the heels of her recent 2022 Academy of Country Music Awards win for Entertainer of the Year, Miranda Lambert is set to release "Palomino," her ninth solo album, on April 29, 2022.

A line from the first song written for the album perhaps sums up the project as a whole best: “there’s always been a stranger in my soul / who loves a good goodbye and a good hello,” she sings in “Tourist.” On Palomino, her inner stranger travels lyrically from Fort Worth to the Mojave Desert; Battambang, Cambodia to Maine; the Crystal Palace in Bakersfield to the Rocky Mountains and beyond. In each destination and with every character met along the way, Lambert’s freewheeling trek is a work of unbridled freedom and self-discovery without painful introspection.

“The making of this record has been one of the most fun and creative experiences of my career,” reflects the woman who holds the title of most-awarded artist in ACM history. “Luke Dick, Natalie Hemby, and I went out to my farm in Tennessee in 2020 and started writing songs. We figured while we have time let’s get out to the country and see what happens. The first one we wrote was ‘Tourist’ and that set us on a path to create something with a bit of a theme. Since we couldn’t travel at the time, we decided to go on a journey through songs. I hope y’all are ready to travel with us wandering spirits and meet some cool characters with great stories.”

Lambert -- who is now the most-awarded artist in ACM history -- has already released the Jesse Frasure co-written single "If I Was A Cowboy" and the just-premiered, low-key, 70s rock-tinged "Strange" (featuring Dick and Hemby as writers) from the new project. "Palomino"'s other reported influences include acts like Little Feat, Bruce Hornsby, the Range and Emmylou Harris.

The album includes a cover of Mick Jagger's 1993 solo album title single "Wandering Spirit," plus an album track entitled "Music City Queen," which features backing vocals from pop icons the B-52s.

Tracks



• 1 Actin' Up
• 2 Scenes
• 3 In His Arms
• 4 Geraldene
• 5 Tourist
• 6 Music City Queen Feat. the B-52S
• 7 Strange
• 8 Wandering Spirit
• 9 I'll Be Lovin' You
• 10 That's What Makes the Jukebox Play
• 11 Country Money
• 12 If I Was a Cowboy
• 13 Waxahachie
• 14 Pursuit of Happiness
• 15 Carousel

For his first Christmas album, 1963's The Christmas Spirit, Johnny Cash's golden baritone is framed handsomely by the sterling production of the great Don Law (Robert Johnson, Bob Wills, Ray Price). The sundry set features The Man In Black's own moving originals like "The Christmas Spirit," "The Gifts They Gave" and "Who Kept The Sheep" alongside compelling spiritual fare like "Silent Night" and "The Little Drummer Boy," plus well-suited takes of Tex Ritter's classic "Here Was A Man," and his sweetheart June Carter Cash's "Christmas As I Knew It."

1. The Christmas Spirit
2. I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
3. Blue Christmas
4. The Gifts They Gave
5. Here Was A Man
6. Christmas As I Knew It
7. Silent Night
8. The Little Drummer Boy
9. Ringing The Bells For Jim
10. We Are The Shepherds
11. Who Kept The Sheep
12. The Ballad Of The Harp Weaver

Vinyl LP pressing. After two years of relentless touring, Colter Wall wanted to make an album about home. Drawing on the stories of Saskatchewan, Canada, the young songwriter's corner of the world takes shape throughout his second full-length album, Songs of the Plains. Produced by Dave Cobb in Nashville's Studio A, the project combines striking original folk songs, well-chosen outside cuts, and a couple of traditional songs that reflect his roots growing up in the small city of Swift Current.

• 1 Plain to See Plainsman
• 2 Saskatchewan in 1881
• 3 John Beyers - Camaro Song
• 4 Wild Dogs
• 5 Calgary Round-Up
• 6 Night Herding Song
• 7 Wild Bill Hickok
• 8 The Trains Are Gone
• 9 Thinkin' on a Woman
• 10 Manitoba Man
• 11 Tying Knots in the Devil's Tail

Bronco is the new album from country artist and songwriter Orville Peck. A consummate storyteller, the country rock inspired Bronco plays upon the horse theme so often found in Orville's work, but this time with an exploration of freedom, breaking free from that which binds us and all that is wild and untamed. Bronco builds upon and follows Peck's previous album Pony and EP Show Pony, which explored themes of love, loss and loneliness but advances the story arc in a bolder, newer and warmer trajectory. "This is my most impassioned and authentic album to date," says Peck. "I was inspired by country rock, 60s & 70s psychedelic, California and even bluegrass with everything being anchored in country. Bronco is all about being unrestrained and the culmination of a year of touring, writing in isolation and going through and ultimately emerging from a challenging personal time."

LP1

1. Daytona Sand
2. The Curse of the Blackened Eye
3. Outta Time
4. Lafayette
5. C'mon Baby, Cry
6. Iris Rose
7. Kalahari Down
8. Bronco

LP2

1. Trample Out the Days
2. Blush
3. Hexie Mountains
4. Let Me Drown
5. Any Turn
6. City of Gold
7. All I Can Say

Double colored vinyl LP pressing. A comprehensive career retrospective of country and pop legend, the great Patsy Cline. It's unspeakably tragic that the span between Patsy's first hit and her death was six years. Her golden voice would have graced countless future classics we never got to hear, but this collection brings us 23 performances that, thankfully, we did. The beauty of her singing extends to the packaging: two colored vinyl LPs in a lovely gatefold jacket featuring detailed personnel credits. Her immortal breakthrough smash "Walkin' After Midnight" joins "Life's Railway to Heaven," "Walking Dream," "Try Again," "Fingerprints," "Never No More," "Cry Not for Me," "The Heart You Break May Be Your Own," "Honky Tonk Merry Go Round," "Three Cigarettes (in the Ashtray)," "Too Many Secrets" and more.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Walkin' After Midnight
• 2 The Heart You Break May Be Your Own
• 3 Turn the Cards Slowly
• 4 Honky Tonk Merry Go Round
• 5 I Cried All the Way to the Altar
• 6 Stop, Look and Listen
• 7 I've Loved and Lost Again
• 8 Fingerprints
• 9 Try Again
• 10 Then You'll Know
• 11 Three Cigarettes (In the Ashtray)
• 12 Too Many Secrets
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Walking Dream
• 2 If I Could See the World (Through the Eyes of a Child)
• 3 Cry Not for Me
• 4 (Write Me) in Care of the Blues
• 5 Come on in (And Make Yourself at Home)
• 6 Never No More
• 7 Just Out of Reach
• 8 I Can See An Angel
• 9 Yes, I Understand
• 10 Love, Love, Love Me Honey Do
• 11 Life's Railway to Heaven

RCA Records - Imaginary Appalachia - Colter Wall - Red Vinyl Reissue of Imaginary Appalachia.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Sleeping on the Blacktop
• 2 Johnny Boy's Bones (Feat. the Dead South)
• 3 Caroline (Feat. Belle Plaine)
• 4 Living on the Sand
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Ballad of a Law Abiding Sophisticate
• 2 Nothin'
• 3 The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie

Kelsea Ballerini launched onto the country music scene in 2015 with her debut album The First Time. Her career skyrocketed with three consecutive No. 1 songs including “Love Me Like You Mean It,” “Peter Pan” and “Dibs,” making her the only female artist in country music history to achieve this milestone. Her sophomore album Unapologetically further demonstrates Ballerini’s staying power and continues where The First Time left off.

Ballerini wrote each of the album’s 12 tracks and shares the ups and downs of her past two years. Whether she’s dealing with heartbreak or falling in love, Ballerini’s relatable lyrics and captivating music keep the listener intrigued. Following the success of The First Time, Ballerini enlisted the help of co-writers Shane McAnally, Ross Copperman, Ashley Gorley and Hillary Lindsey, among others, for her most ambitious release yet.

• 1 Graveyard
• 2 Miss Me More
• 3 Get Over Yourself
• 4 Roses
• 5 Machine Heart
• 6 In Between
• 7 High School
• 8 End of the World
• 9 I Hate Love Songs
• 10 Unapologetically
• 11 Music
• 12 Legends

Lainey Wilson - Sayin' What I'm Thinkin' (Pearl)

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Neon Diamonds
• 2 Sunday Best
• 3 Things a Man Oughta Know
• 4 Small Town, Girl
• 5 la
• 6 Dirty Looks
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Pipe
• 2 Keeping Bars in Business
• 3 Straight Up Sideways
• 4 WWDD
• 5 Rolling Stone
• 6 Sayin' What I'm Thinkin'

George Strait - #1's Vol 1 (Blue Vinyl) #1's Vol. 1 from George Strait includes 14 #1 Hits on limited edition BLUE Vinyl including "Check Yes or No", "Ace in The Hole", "Love Without End, Amen" and 11 other songs!

• 1 Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind
• 2 The Chair
• 3 Ocean Front Property
• 4 Baby's Gotten Good at Goodbye
• 5 Ace in the Hole
• 6 Love Without End, Amen
• 7 Right or Wrong
• 8 I Hate Everything
• 9 Easy Come, Easy Go
• 10 Check Yes or No
• 11 Blue Clear Sky
• 12 Carrying Your Love with Me
• 13 True
• 14 Heartland (Pure Country Soundtrack Version)

The debut album from accomplished guitarist and songwriter Jason Isbell, formerly of Drive By Truckers (DBT), is reissued with 4 unreleased tracks from the original recording sessions. The addition of those 4 extra songs finds Sirens Of The Ditch clocking in at 15 total tracks. - Sirens Of The Ditch's mystical quality can be partially attributed to the FAME recording studio (Aretha Franklin, Duane Allman, Otis Redding) in Isbell's hometown of Muscle Shoals, AL where the album was recorded. Co-produced by Isbell and Patterson Hood (DBT), Sirens Of The Ditch features Isbell singing lead vocals and playing guitar throughout, joined by Shonna Tucker (Formerly of DBT) on Bass and Brad Morgan (DBT) on drums. Several musicians pop in for cameos including Spooner Oldham and David Hood (Patterson's father) on "Down In A Hole", John Neff (Formerly of DBT) on "Dress Blues" and Patterson himself guests on "Shotgun Wedding".

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Brand New Kind of Actress
• 2 Down in a Hole
• 3 Try
• 4 Chicago Promenade
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Dress Blues
• 2 Grown
• 3 Hurricanes and Hand Grenades
• 4 In a Razor Town
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Shotgun Wedding
• 2 The Magician
• 3 The Devil Is My Running Mate
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Whisper*
• 2 Crystal Clear*
• 3 The Assassin*
• 4 Racetrack Romeo*

The country singer/songwriter legend's debut Atlantic Album, which was included in Rolling Stone's list of 500 greatest records of all time. In 2009, Bob Dylan told the Huffington Post that Prine was one of his favorite songwriters of all time, and critics generally agree that his simple song structures support both sarcasm and wry observation and commentary on life that is generally unparalleled.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Illegal Smile
• 2 Spanish Pipedream
• 3 Hello in There
• 4 Sam Stone
• 5 Paradise
• 6 Pretty Good
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore
• 2 Far from Me
• 3 Angel from Montgomery
• 4 Quiet Man
• 5 Donald and Lydia
• 6 Six O'Clock News
• 7 Flashback Blues

BEYONCÉ COWBOY CARTER / Cowboy Carter (also referred to as Act II: Cowboy Carter) is the eighth studio Beyoncé, released on March 29, 2024. The album is the second installment of Beyoncé's trilogy project, following Renaissance (2022). Beyoncé conceived Cowboy Carter as a journey through a reinvention of Americana. Mostly labeled a country album, Cowboy Carter also blends together diverse musical genres such as R&B, pop, hip hop, blues, soul, rock and folk music. Conceptually, the album is presented as a radio broadcast by fictional station "KNTRY Radio Texas", with country singers Dolly Parton, Linda Martell and Willie Nelson acting as disc jockeys.

• 1 Ameriican Requiem
• 2 Blackbiird - Beyoncé, Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Tiera Kennedy, Reyna Roberts
• 3 16 Carriages
• 4 Protector - Beyoncé, Rumi Carter
• 5 My Rose
• 6 Smoke Hour ★ Willie Nelson - Willie Nelson
• 7 Texas Hold 'Em
• 8 Bodyguard
• 9 Dolly P - Dolly Parton
• 10 Jolene
• 11 Daughter
• 12 Alliigator Tears
• 13 Smoke Hour II - Willie Nelson
• 14 Just for Fun - Beyoncé, Willie Jones
• 15 II Most Wanted - Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus
• 16 Levii's Jeans - Beyoncé, Post Malone
• 17 Desert Eagle
• 18 Riiverdance
• 19 II Hands II Heaven
• 20 Tyrant
• 21 Sweet ★ Honey ★ Buckiin'
• 22 Amen

Limited vinyl LP pressing of this 2002 album from the Country legend. This is the last album released before his death in 2003. The majority of songs are covers which Cash performs in his own spare style, with help from producer Rick Rubin. To the present day, Cash's studio albums for the AMERICAN series have continued to sell extremely well.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 The Man Comes Around 4:26
• 2 Hurt 3:36
• 3 Give My Love to Rose 3:27
• 4 Bridge Over Troubled Water 3:54
• 5 I Hung My Head 3:53
• 6 First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 3:52
• 7 Personal Jesus 3:19
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 In My Life 2:57
• 2 Sam Hall 2:39
• 3 Danny Boy 3:18
• 4 Desperado 3:12
• 5 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry 3:02
• 6 Tear Stained Letter 3:39
• 7 Streets of Laredo 3:33
• 8 We'll Meet Again 2:58

Brothers Osborne Pawn Shop on LP

Years before they climbed the country charts with songs like "Stay a Little Longer" and "Rum," the Brothers Osborne grew up in Deale, Maryland, a small fishing town on the Atlantic seaboard. It was a cozy place, filled with blue-collar workers who made their living on the water. During the weekends, many of those workers would head over to the Osborne household, where a series of loose, all-night jam sessions filled the Maryland air with the sounds of Bob Seger, Hank Williams, Tom Petty and George Jones.

The Osborne siblings strummed their first chords during those jam sessions. From the very start, TJ Osborne was the brother with the voice. He sang in a thick, low baritone, crooning like Johnny Cash long before he was even old enough to drive. Older brother John, on the other hand, was the family's guitar shredder, his fingers capable of down-home bluegrass licks, arena-worthy rock riffs, country twang, and everything in between. Combined, the two Osbornes could play everything from traditional country music to rock & roll, creating a broad, full-bodied sound that would eventually fill the 11 songs on their major-label debut, Pawn Shop.

Like its title suggests, Pawn Shop offers a little bit of everything. There's bluesy slide guitar, country duets, southern rock solos, harmonies, and plenty of groove. The hooks are big, the guitars are loud, and the songs – every last one of them co-written by the Osbornes, who reached out to award-winning songwriters like Shane McAnally and Ross Copperman for help – introduce a duo whose music bridges the gap between the mainstream and the alternative world. Some songs were written at home in Nashville, while others came together on the road, where the guys spent several years headlining their own club shows, touring the country with Darius Rucker, and playing some of the biggest arenas in America with fellow rule-breaker Eric Church.

"Most duos are built on singing," says TJ "But John is an incredible guitar player, and this band is built on me singing and John playing guitar. It gives us two parallels that work nicely together." "It's like an old-school rock approach," adds John, who cites classic bands like Aerosmith and the Allman Brothers as influences on the duo's dynamic. "Groups like that always had the lead singer as well as the sideman guitar player. That's what we're going for, too. We're carving our own path in country music."

That unique path has already led the band toward the upper half of the country charts. "Rum" got them there first, mixing the feel-good sunshine of a beach tune with a far more realistic storyline. There's no actual beach in "Rum," after all. Instead, Brothers Osborne turn the song into a tribute to the simple pleasures that their Maryland hometown offers: friends, good weather, and the occasional drink. They even filmed the song's music video in Deale, filling the clip with footage of friends, relatives, and locals.

A similar theme runs throughout "Dirt Rich" and "Pawn Shop," two songs that stress the importance of appreciating what you've got. Pawn Shop dishes up plenty of love songs, too, from "Loving Me Back" – an old-school country duet featuring vocals from Lee Ann Womack – to "Stay a Little Longer," the band's biggest hit to date. While a three-minute guitar solo brings "Stay a Little Longer" to an epic, anthemic close, Brothers Osborne also devote time to more laid-back songs, from the nostalgic California country of "21 Summer" to the 420-friendly "Greener Pastures."

Brothers Osborne, who co-produced the album with Jay Joyce (the award-winning producer behind Little Big Town's Painkiller, Eric Church's The Outsiders, and Carrie Underwood's Storyteller), recorded most of Pawn Shop during breaks in their busy touring schedule, using members of their own touring band rather than session musicians from the Nashville community. The result is an album that's stamped with the unmistakable mark of a band. It doesn't sound like two singers, flanked by anonymous players. 

Instead, it sounds like a group of road warriors who've spent years sharing bus seats and hotel rooms, creating the sort of chemistry that can't be faked. Pawn Shop is both raw and real, and Brothers Osborne – who, years after those household jam sessions in Deale, now have a handful of nationwide tours under their belts, songs on the charts, and a career on the rise – are no longer a family secret.

1. Dirt Rich
2. 21 Summer
3. Stay A Little Longer
4. Pawn Shop
5. Rum
6. Loving Me Back
7. American Crazy
8. Greener Pastures
9. Down Home
10. Heart Shaped Locket
11. It Ain't My Fault

Alison Krauss and Union Station Paper Airplane on LP

Krauss and Union Station's First New Album of All-Original Material Since 2004: Roots Music At Its Most Poignant

Incredible Performance and Amazing Sonics

A To-Die-For Female Vocal and Acoustic Album: Another Krauss Classic

Alison Krauss' most recent triumph, the certified-platinum Raising Sand, her 2007 collaboration with Robert Plant and producer T-Bone Burnett, notched a total of six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year, bringing her unsurpassed total to 26. That mesmerizing modern-day masterpiece sets the stage for another stunner, Paper Airplane, the artist's first album of all-new recordings in partnership with her remarkably skillful and renowned band Union Station since 2004's Lonely Runs Both Ways.

The players: Jerry Douglas (dobro, lap steel, vocals), Dan Tyminski (guitar, mandolin, lead vocal), Ron Block (banjo, guitar) and Barry Bales (bass, vocals), with Krauss on lead vocal and fiddle, are five distinct personalities who come together to form something truly unique as a band. Each bandmate has his own bustling career, but when these singular musicians come together, they're an airtight unit devoted to the process of playing music together.

Produced by Krauss and Union Station, with studio legend Mike Shipley engineering and mixing, Paper Airplane contains 11 songs of poignancy and austere beauty, chosen with the impeccable taste and intuition that have characterized her entire body of work, delivered by this world-class unit with an immediacy that goes beyond mere virtuosity.

Alison Krauss And Union Station Paper Airplane Track Listing:

1.  Paper Airplane
2.  Dust Bowl Children
3.  Lie Awake
4.  Lay My Burden Down
5.  My Love Follows You Where You Go
6.  Dimming Of The Day
7.  On The Outside Looking In
8.  Miles To Go
9.  Sinking Stone
10. Bonita and Bill Butler
11. My Opening Farewell

George Strait - #1's Vol. 2 (Tan Transparent Vinyl) #1’s Vol. 2 from George Strait includes Includes 14- #1 Hits on Tan Vinyl including “All My Ex’s Live In Texas”, “Write This Down”, “I Can Still Make Cheyenne” and 11 other songs!

• 1 All My Ex's Live in Texas
• 2 Famous Last Words of a Fool
• 3 The Man in Love with You
• 4 You Know Me Better Than That
• 5 Write This Down
• 6 I Just Want to Dance with You
• 7 Am I Blue
• 8 The Chill of An Early Fall
• 9 I Cross My Heart - Pure Country Soundtrack Version
• 10 Carried Away
• 11 I Can Still Make Cheyenne
• 12 Living and Living Well
• 13 If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')
• 14 A Fire I Can't Put Out

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Modern-day country giant Luke Bryan presents a Deluxe Edition colored vinyl 2LP of his No. 1 album, Born Here Live Here Die Here complete with six new tracks in addition to the original 10 tracks including the three No. 1 Country singles "Knockin' Boots," "What She Wants Tonight," and "One Margarita," plus the Top 5 smash, "Down To One." The album, Bryan's seventh studio release, was produced by Jeff Stevens and Jody Stevens, and the star says of the title song: "The second I heard the song ‘Born Here, Live Here, Die Here' [written by Jameson Rodgers, Josh Thompson and Jake Mitchell] it related to me, how I grew up, how I have so many roots and so many ties to my hometown. Being tied to your hometown is very important in country music. I fell in love with the song right away and now we have an album and a tour derived from this song. It's pretty amazing. I'm proud of this new music and I'm really excited to get it out!"

1. Knockin' Boots
2. What She Wants Tonight
3. Born Here Live Die Here
4. One Margarita
5. Too Drunk To Drive
6. Build Me A Daddy
7. Little Less Broken
8. For A Boat
9. Where Are We Goin'
10. Down To One
11. Country Does
12. Drink A Little Whiskey Down
13. Waves
14. Bill Dance
15. Up
16. Floatin' This Creek

Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Lady A's 2021 album, What A Song Can Do, reinvigorates the band's signature sound - a captivating fusion of rootsy pop and electrifying harmony that has dominated charts for more than a decade. Having amassed record-breaking success, they have ushered in more than 18 million album units and 34 million tracks sold with over 5 billion digital streams. The trio has nine #1 hits to their name and has earned ACM and CMA Vocal Group of the Year trophies 3 years in a row with countless other honors.

• 1 Talk of This Town
• 2 What a Song Can Do
• 3 Like a Lady
• 4 Things He Handed Down
• 5 Fire
• 6 Chance of Rain
• 7 Worship What I Hate
• 8 Where Would I Be
• 9 Friends Don't Let Friends (Featuring Carly Pearce, Thomas Rhett, Darius Rucker)
• 10 In Waves
• 11 You Keep Thinking That
• 12 Be That for You
• 13 Workin' on This Love
• 14 Swore I Was Leaving