Kevin Morby just released his masterpiece. Little Wide Open , out today, is the folk-rock singer-songwriter's greatest collection of songs to date. The album presents an interconnected batch of reflections: on Morby's Midwestern homeland and the adventures that have carried him far from it, on isolation and connection, on reckless youth and hard-won maturity, on how to navigate this life and what makes it worth living. Written on tour and during long solo drives through the middle American expanse, the album is full of wise observations, vivid images, and clever turns of phrase. Motifs recur, piling up into an iconography: dandelions and butterflies, natural disasters and Bible Belt cowtowns, the open sky and the open road, riding shotgun while time careens forward. Morby's Dylan-esque delivery has never sounded more natural and lived-in, and his lyrics here are vulnerable enough to cut you open even as he maintains a certain poetic mystique. The music casts those words in a gorgeous light.…