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Fort Worth's own Leon Bridges and Keite Young cover Pastor T.L. Barrett's "Like a Ship", for Skin Wade's Truth to Power Project...

Fort Worth's own Leon Bridges stopped through LA's KCRW yesterday to perform some jams for Morning Becomes Eclectic. The set included just about all of the songs from Leon's debut full-length Coming Home, as well as one that probably should have been on the record ("Daisy Mae"), and a very nice shout to GvsB...

You already know how we feel about this one, so just go listen. Coming Home is out June 23, but you can stream the record now in its entirety below:

Leon Bridges takes us back again with some real Sam Cooke-era Soul Stirrers vibes on "Lisa Sawyer", a tender, beautifully nuanced, vintage doo-wop soul ballad -- and Jessie Ware's favorite jam -- that Leon penned as a loving ode to his mother...

It's been way too long since we were blown away by someone from around here, but we feel like these brilliant throwback soul jams from Crowley's Leon Bridges are pretty undeniable. We don't know much about Bridges at this point, and it's hard to believe that this kid channeling a young Sam Cooke comes from our own backyard, or anywhere, but we can't escape the promise of greatness we keep hearing

Roberto Cacciapaglia here. He was heavily involved in the Anne Steele music from the video before, and a pioneer of computers in music. This record also has some of my favorite album art. --Josh, White Denim

Kick ass, DFW style!!! -- Josh, White Denim

These guys kill it on the regular. -- Josh, White Denim

Henry Cow with a beautifully shot and performed live production. Every member of this group is fantastic. I wish most live recordings looked and sounded like this. -- Josh, White Denim

Emmylou and the Hot Band tearing it up. Seriously tearing it up. This performance always gets me super pumped! -- Josh, White Denim