Raised within reach of the Ohio River, Jeremy Pinnell grew up listening to a musical soundtrack as broad as midwestern skies. After making his debut with OH/KY — a career-launching album built on the borderline of Rust Belt roots music and raw, unflinching country — he began broadening his sound, nodding to the influences that first sparked his interest as a Kentucky teenager. His fourth record, Decades, finds him reaching a new level of hook-heavy songwriting, melding the radio-friendly choruses Pinnell heard as a child with the songwriting chops that have since turned him into an Ameripolitan Music Award winner. Produced by two-time GRAMMY recipient Shooter Jennings, Decades finds its frontman in a reflective mood, balancing the uplift of his melodies with the gravity of his most personal lyrics to date. These are songs about highways, hard lessons, and the human condition, and they recast Pinnell — whom Rolling Stone praised for creating "hardscrabble honky-tonk at its best" — as an explorative genre bender who's willing to chase down new horizons.