Kelsea Ballerini - Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (For Good) (2023) Hi-Res

In early 2023, Kelsea Ballerini released her Rolling Up the Welcome Mat EP, a frank collection of songs she wrote and recorded with collaborator Alysa Vanderheym in the wake of her high-profile divorce. The songs span a number of the complicated feelings wrought by a difficult breakup, like the angry scepticism of “Blindsided” and the knowing regret of “Mountain With a View”, on which Ballerini reflects frankly upon the moment things really fell apart in her marriage. Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (For Good) expands upon its predecessor, offering new music as well as revisions of original tracks, like the live “Healed Version” of the heart-wrenching ballad “Penthouse”. The EP’s “Interlude” gets a “Full Length” treatment, while the already cutting “Blindsided” adds the sarcastic parenthetical “(Yeah, Sure, Okay)” to its title, as well as additional lyrics which Ballerini debuted during a performance on Saturday Night Live. Closing track “How Do I Do This” is brand new, serving as a cautiously optimistic capstone that especially emphasises the “For Good” in the updated EP’s title.