Orville Peck w/ Abbie Callahan

The first voices you’ll hear on Orville Peck’s fourth studio album are Emmylou Harris, Noah Cyrus and Allison Russell, harmonizing bluegrass on “Prologue (Eulogy Of A Man Turned Mule)” as they introduce Mule, a sweeping, chronological epic that narrativizes the year 2023—or, as Orville knows it, the year he “hit rock bottom before finally getting sober.” The image is stark and cinematic: three ico