Sean Rowe has spent much of the last year traveling the U.S with just his guitar, performing in people's living rooms. "Going door to door, it's a really intense experience for listeners to have me there in their homes playing, They're not used to having a stranger show up, play music, drink their beer and eat their food, But I think that's how we're supposed to be, It only feels strange because we've made it that way." It is this same sense of unflinching connection that has shaped Rowe's extraordinary new album Madman, The singer, who The Wall Street Journal wrote "recalls the ecstatic intensity of late-'60s Van Morrison and stark subtlety of late-era Johnny Cash" has created a beautifully primal work. Madman is deliberately simple in both arrangement and composition, It is soul music in the purest and most literal sense, hypnotic rhythms, warmly distorted guitars and Rowe's incredible voice recalling a time, real or imagined, when music and people seemed distinctly more connected. The sound of Madman is influenced, in large part, by the hypnotic guitars of Delta blues, with its guitar and stomping bass drum. But there are still the trademark ballads that first gained Rowe attention on his debut, Magic, showcases for the astonishing voice and honest emotional songwriting that continues to garner Sean Rowe much deserved acclaim.