Sylvia Rose Novak's new album is called Bad Luck. But the Alabama singer-songwriter-bassist is actually celebrating some "great luck that I got to make the album I wanted instead of just settling for something." The 10-track set, whose pensive "Arkansas" is premiering below, certainly fits the adage of "if at first you don't succeed..." Novak recorded an initial version of the album, then titled Luckiest Alive, last year in her basement.
But when she got the master recording back from the engineer, Novak was dismayed at what she heard. "I called him and said, 'This is terrible!' and he said, 'That’s the best I can do with what you gave me.