May 20 street date. Vinyl edition to be released later this year. Down in Louisiana, they do things differently. The Southern state's musical giants have always had their own distinct recipe for American roots: spiced with jazz, steeped in swamp-blues and cooked up a little differently by every artist who performs it. As a second-generation child of the Bayou State, Kenny Neal has taken his own inimitable guitar, gale-force harp and roadworn voice all over the globe. But in 2022, the Grammy-nominated blues master's latest album, "Straight From The Heart", finds him drawn by the siren call of his hometown and musical ground zero, Baton Rouge. If there's a guiding concept behind the eleven songs of "Straight From The Heart", it's Neal's mission to wind back the reels of his life and channel the spirit of the music that crackled from the family record player in early years. View all titles by this artist