Hunter Root - Crooked Home (2025) [Official Digital Download]

Pennsylvania-based multi-instrumentalist Hunter Root releases his new album, "Crooked Home". Shaped by trauma, loss, and resilience, the album is a deeply emotional reckoning that captures Root at his most confessional and unflinching. Alongside the announcement, he shares the first single, “‘94,” a stark portrait of his upbringing and the loss of his brother, who battled both cancer and heroin addiction.

Produced by acclaimed artist Anders Osborne and engineered by David Kalmusky at Addiction Studios in Nashville, Crooked Home tells a story that’s as raw as it is intimate. “The songs weren't written to deliver a message,” says Root. “They’re simply confessions set to music.” The album also features contributions from Chad Cromwell (Neil Young, Mark Knopfler) on drums, Marc Rogers on bass and keys, and Lindsay Lou, who lends haunting backing vocals on two tracks.

A follow-up to his acclaimed 2023 LP Arkansas, Crooked Home sees Root facing his past directly, grappling with the loss of his brother, his struggles with Lyme disease and chronic pain, and a family legacy of addiction. “‘94” sets the tone, capturing that turbulent backdrop in vivid detail, painting scenes of alcoholic parents, siblings under the influence, and a young boy navigating the wreckage around him. The single’s cover art is a childhood photo of Root with his brother, taken outside their dad’s truck.

“Back in 1994 / Glad I woke up but I didn't wake up too sure / Back in 1993 / The devil made his way inside a kid and then he never broke free…” he sings in the chorus, an unflinching reflection on the brother he lost and the cycles he’s struggled to escape.

TRACKLIST

1. Hunter Root - '94
2. Hunter Root - Low
3. Hunter Root - String up a Necklace
4. Hunter Root - Hand In the Fire
5. Hunter Root - Flash in the Pan
6. Hunter Root - Friendly Fire
7. Hunter Root - The Devil is the Culprit
8. Hunter Root - If the Body is a Temple
9. Hunter Root - The Keeper
10. Hunter Root - Out of my Hands
11. Hunter Root - Bad Sign
12. Hunter Root - My Brother's Bones



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