Don't Walk the Darkness

The now Memphis-based Texas guitarist, Will Sexton teams up with New Orleans veterans, The Iguanas, for a ten-track roots-rock album.

For his new album, Sexton set up with Bruce Watson at Delta-Sonic, combining his new digs in Memphis along with a crew of old favourites from New Orleans, tapping Crescent City legends the Iguanas to serve as his main backing band.

While the bulk of Darkness was written in the lead-up to its recording, two key tracks are unheard numbers from Sexton’s back catalog. The soulful Only Forever was a lost gem from his days as a staff songwriter in the early-’90s. The other, Don’t Take It From Me, was co-written with late outlaw-country icon Waylon Jennings in 2001.

The balance of the album finds Sexton finding inspiration in the more interesting corners of Americana, whether it’s the ghostly gospel incantations of the opener / title track, the hypnotic blues shuffle of What My Baby Don’t Know or the R&B anthemics of Temptations Call. Elsewhere, Sexton’s roots show on the Tex-Mex romancer Witness, the Vox-organ-flecked Mess Around With My Mind and the horn-fueled meditation The Whole Story.