Lance Cowan
THE AIR THAT YOU BREATHE
Best Album 2026. There is no reason to hide the headline. Or hide the surprise.
The singer-songwriter Lance Cowan steps into a spotlight that he surely deserves. The man has been one of America’s finest publicists for many years. His career timeline started as a newspaper writer, and he really had the abilities. Then he crossed the tracks and started promoting the gifts of other artists for years. And finally he crossed the tracks again and went into recording studios to work on his original music.
This third album by Cowan is in many ways a stunner.
He sounds like someone who has been writing great songs his whole life, singing them as strong as any other vocalists and then walked into this new career like he owned it.
So many intriguing originals and heartmoving vocals make up this new mountain of an achievement. There’s big songlines and intricate stories that move in and out of 11 songs that clearly will be one that touches all who listen for many years to come.
And Cowan’s voice has grown into one that can only be his own, as he sings in and out of different emotions like an artist in a class of his own.
Producer Scott Paschall is the perfect person to fill that job. He is a master of originality and insight into what music is meant to do.
By the end of THE AIR THAT YOU BREATHE the real result of feeling breathlessness is what’s just been experienced. Unreal but true.”
— Bill Bentley
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