The Bird & The Rifle

"The Bird and The Rifle" is the eighth full length studio album by Lori McKenna, released on July 29, 2016, through CN Records. Despite the album's limited commercial success (it never charted on the Billboard 200), it earned critical acclaim and was nominated for Best Americana Album at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. The Bird and the Rifle received highly positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 82 out of 100, which indicates "universal acclaim" based on 4 reviews.