The Even More Freewheelin Jeffrey Lewiswas recorded in just four days in Nashville, by Roger Moutenot (long-time producer of Yo La Tengo, and the previous Jeffrey Lewis album Bad Wiring), and features the Jeffrey Lewis and The Voltage touring band of Brent Cole on drums, Mem Pahl on bass and Mallory Feuer on violin and keyboard. Jeffreys style of anti-singing continues to reach for the humanity behind the artifice, mirroring the nudity of the album cover. Speaking of which:

One snowy February day in 1963, Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo were photographed in New York City for the cover of The Freewheelin Bob Dylan LP, around the corner from Dylans 4th Street apartment. 60 years later, lifelong 4th St resident Jeffrey Lewis had the idea to try to take the same chilly photo but with no pants on, to prove himself even more freewheelin than Bob! This plan was foiled by global warming, as New York City winters no longer offer snowy street photo ops, but at least Jeffrey tried.

While the album cover might be a native New Yorkers neighbourhood joke, it also serves to throw down the gauntlet to modern song-smiths, as if to point out that nobody in contemporary songwriting can quite fill Jeffreys shoes (barefoot or not). If you thought 2019sBad Wiringwas an unimprovable high-watermark of the Jeffrey Lewis 20-year discography, prepare to be shook all over again. The range of moods, situations, wordplay and styles here is effortlessly breathtaking, and if you arent transported on ten different emotional rollercoasters by the ten songs on this album then you might just be a Chat GPT replicant-bot.

Format / LP
Released / 05/09/2025
Catalogue / DGIO-314
Barcode / 634457203099
Artist / Jeffrey Lewis
Label / Don Giovanni Records
Genre / Pop / Rock