The 12 guests of Raven Hotel are songs that celebrate the bright sides of dark places. Like a tapestry hung in a flophouse window, they reveal the ordinary splendor of optimism and second chances. In the first three tracks alone we see a glitter-skinned dancer find salvation in a haze of fiddles and exhaust fumes, a drunken troubadour quoting T.S. Eliot to justify his wandering, and an absent father finally teaching his kid to drive. Throughout this album, Matt Harlan makes the mundane magical.

Old Spanish Moss 4:56
Half Developed Song 3:51
Second Gear 3:14
Riding with the Wind 4:24
We Never Met (Time Machine) 4:43
Rock & Roll 3:46
Raven Hotel 4:44
Old Allen Road 6:09
Burgundy and Blue 3:17
Slow Moving Train 3:12
The Optimist 4:19
Rearview Display 2:44

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