''Passages'' is the eighth studio album by

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singer-songwriter

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, released on May 31, 2019.Graham Rockingham
"Justin Rutledge is alt-country with a little help from his friends"
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'', March 8, 2019. Rutledge has acknowledged that while he usually writes songs from a fictional perspective rather than writing about his own life, the album's title track is a love song to his wife, designer and

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host Sarah Keenleyside, whom he married in 2018. The album features a songwriting collaboration with novelist

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, with whom he first collaborated on his 2010 album '' The Early Widows'', on the song "Boats", and includes guitar contributions by former

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guitarist Rob Baker. "Good Man" was released in March as the album's first preview single."Justin Rutledge: Good Man"
''FYI Music News'', March 3, 2019.

Track listing

#"Captive" #"Allisonville" #"Passages" #"Good Man" #"Not Enough" #"One Winter's Day" #"Weight of the World" #"Belleville Breakup" #"Chains" #"Boats"

References

2019 albums Justin Rutledge albums Outside Music albums {{2010s-country-album-stub