Blacktop Road is Doug Spears’ long-awaited return to the full-length album format, following his acclaimed 2010 release Welcome Home. Issued by Gatorbone Records and featuring The Florida Cracker Collective, the album is a deeply rooted journey through the landscapes, history, and people of the American South—especially the “real Florida” that has shaped Spears’ life and songs.

Blending warm acoustic instrumentation, expressive vocals, and vivid storytelling, the collection explores home, perseverance, love, loss, redemption, and the enduring bond between people and place. Eight newly written post-pandemic songs join fresh reinterpretations of six favorites from earlier projects, creating a work that feels both timeless and unmistakably of the present moment.

Blacktop Road

Doug Spears

CD Edition

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Deluxe Edition

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Blacktop Road is HERE! Deluxe Edition with CD, 38 page full color booklet containing lyrics, song stories, photos, option to digitally download album and bonus tracks and more

Also available as CD only in a four panel full color CD wallet w/o lyrics, stories, etc.

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    Blacktop Road 3:59
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    Time Can't be Saved 3:56
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    Break Some Stones 4:23
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    My Old Friend 3:54
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    It Must Be You 4:34
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    Crazy Year 4:30
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    The Old Cracker Cowman 3:14
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    The Cowman's Way 3:54
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  9. 9
    I Wish 4:08
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    Gandy Dancer 5:07
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    The One Not There 4:50
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    Small Town Thing 3:32
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    As the Crow Flies 5:10
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    Cheat River Waltz 3:24
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    When the Hummingbirds Return 3:45
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Reviews & Recognition

Fall “Top Ten Spins” Selection

Americana Rhythm Music Magazine

Blacktop Road was selected for the magazine’s curated fall list of new releases recommended to its readers.

View the feature — Issue 112, page 27

“It’s the sort of homespun truth that gets eclipsed by life’s loud distractions but rings with revelation when you come back to it.”

Bao Le-Huu, Orlando Weekly
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