The Plow That Broke the Plains is the new album by Lawrence Rothman. For this next chapter in their ever-evolving artistic career, Lawrence arrived at Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studios to make an album that stands as a testament to resilience—capturing the strength and lessons salvaged from a two-year battle with a eating disorder , while addressing themes of addiction, gender identity and societal pressures. Recorded primarily live, with an emphasis on first takes. the album features some Rothman’s closest collaborators, Amanda Shires, Jason Isbell and S.G. Goodman. On their second album Good Morning, America, Lawrence Rothman set out to create a sonic world that reverses course from the seemingly omnipresent injustices of recent times, building a landscape that places emphasis on equality and freedom of expression above all. In many ways, that makes this new eleven-song collection from Rothman a mission statement on the world as it ought to be in the post-pandemic, post-Trump era. Teaming with like-minded collaborators across genres and generations like Girlpool, Mary Lattimore, Pino Palladino, Katie Pruitt, Caroline Rose, Amanda Shires, and Lucinda Williams. Good Morning, America followed Rothman's critically beloved 2017 debut The Book of Law, which prompted Pitchfork to proclaim “after working behind the scenes as a producer on albums like Angel Olsen’s My Woman, Rothman comes fully into focus now,” and additional projects as a producer, film composer, and mixer.