The leader of the Oklahoma country-rock band Southall, who open the upcoming Black Crowes/Whiskey Myers tour, lays bare familial struggles on the new album Kinfolk When Southall set out to record Kinfolk , their first album in three years, frontman Read Southall had a simple rule in the studio: “Anything goes.” Southall , the band’s self-titled 2023 record that marked its graduation from the Read Southall Band to simply “Southall,” was a deliberate effort, focused on room-filling rock sounds and edgy lyrics: Anything that evoked the country leanings of the group’s previous iteration was cut. In the end, the LP served its purpose in laying out a fresh direction for the renamed band. But for Kinfolk , Southall wanted the full range of the group to be on display. Recorded at 115 Recording in Norman, Oklahoma, with producer Wes Sharon (Turnpike Troubadours), the album’s nine tracks successfully remove any guardrails that still may have been in existence.…