Walk Through Fire

Auerbach produced and co-wrote, and M. Allen Parker recorded and mixed. Yola has called Auerbach just a machine and the sessions the most relaxing production experience she has had; about thirty songs were strummed through in a loose mumble-write approach. The band includes Dave Roe on bass, Gene Crisman on drums, Bobby Wood on piano and Charlie McCoy on harmonica, with Vince Gill, Molly Tuttle, Ronnie McCoury and Stuart Duncan on additional vocals and strings. It reached 83 in the UK, 1 on the UK Americana and country artist charts, and 14 on the US Heatseekers chart, and Metacritic scores it 85.

AllMusic called it an extraordinary record designed to be part of a grand musical tradition, and NPR's Brittney McKenna wrote that it was the work of an artist sure to stun audiences for years. A deluxe edition followed on December 6, 2019, adding "I Don't Wanna Lie" and a cover of Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", whose video John premiered on Twitter.