For songwriter Luke Winslow-­King, 2014­-2015 was the kind of year that nobody would ever want to live through. Never much of an outlaw type, he spent a few weeks in solitary confinement as the result of a low­-level pot charge. He got out of jail and found himself at the start of a long and painful divorce. If you’re supposed to suffer to sing the blues, Winslow­-King got his suffering out of the way in one go.

The product of that year is his new album, I’m Glad Trouble Don’t Last Alw...