TURNER CODY AND THE SOLDIERS OF LOVE, OUT FOR BLOOD

Turner Cody is an American singer-songwriter whose work spans over two decades and more than a dozen albums. He emerged from the Anti Folk scene in New York City, cutting his teeth at open mics at the Sidewalk Café in the late 1990s alongside a loose community of songwriters. Over the years he has released a steady run of records, from early self recorded material to more fully realized studio albums drawing from folk, rock, and literary traditions. His lyrics reflect a strong narrative instinct, grounded in character and storytelling, with a poet’s attention to language and detail.

Out for Blood is Cody’s latest album, recorded with his band Turner Cody and The Soldiers of Love. Shaped in part by life on the road and by his relocation from New York to the American Midwest, the record turns toward everyday life, relationships, and personal tension. The songs unfold as small stories, drawing on American mythologies and circling themes of freedom, responsibility, routine, fate, sin, and redemption. There is a familiarity to Out for Blood as Cody works within a tradition associated with songwriters like Kris Kristofferson, Townes Van Zandt, and John Prine. Like them, Cody is a careful wordsmith, building songs from vivid imagery and plainspoken language, and Out for Blood is a gem of an album, with some of his best songwriting yet.