OLD Crow Medicine Show multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Gill Landry showcases his self-recorded, self-produced and self-titled new album at The Basement, City Screen, York, on Thursday night.

After working his way through broken-hearted love songs on his first two solo records, Landry says: “I tried not to come at this one from the point of how things could or should have been, or should be, but rather searched for sweet understanding and surrender to what is or was, and moving forward with compassion and kindness without harsh judgement to the reasons for this crime or that misstep.”

Gill produced and recorded the album, “mostly from a ramshackle, shanty-ass apartment on the south side of Nashville,” but was aided by a constellation of talents gathered on his travels. English singer-songwriter Laura Marling duets on Take This Body, an urgent plea that imagines the desperate love that courses through our impermanence; Mumford And Sons trumpeter Nick Etwell plays on a handful of songs; Odessa lends harmonies and violin to the waltz-time love letter Emily, and Robert Ellis provides eloquent guitar on Fenario and Bad Love.

Marling says of Landry: "He's just as cool and interesting as you'd hope a sometime professional vagrant from Louisiana, who always wears a hat, smart boots and knows good whiskey, to be."

Support at this Please Please You-promoted gig comes from Zak Ford and Rat Catchers Mallets from 8.30pm. Tickets cost £8 from seetickets.com or £10 on the door from 8pm.