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Mar 31, 2017The album is a reckoning with his own prickly memory, and it's a bounty of weathered emotion and hard-won wisdom.
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UncutMar 30, 2017Age seems to have deepened his poetic faculties, these rootsy narratives scarred by experience, but all the richer for it. Crowell's best since The Houston Kid. [Apr 2017, p.26]
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Mar 30, 2017Co-produced by Kim Buie and Jordan Lehning, the introspective work finds the great American songwriter, who has had hits on the country, pop, rock and Americana charts, settling into his place as an elder statesman by surveying the path that brought him here.
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MojoMay 23, 2017There's no arguing with craftsmanship like this. [Jul 2017, p.88]
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Apr 3, 2017Delicately sung and immaculately played in semi-acoustic fashion, it’s a high point in an impressive career.
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Mar 31, 2017Records of this clout and calibre are ringing endorsements that Crowell is his own man.
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Mar 30, 2017The excellence of Close Ties lies in Crowell’s ability to tell stories about himself and others that ring fresh and true. After more than 50 years as a recording artist, he’s still able to create evocative songs that linger in one’s head long after the disc has finished playing.
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Mar 30, 2017Close Ties shows that it's possible to be an experienced professional and still make music that's emotionally urgent and immediate; it's also a reminder that Rodney Crowell was and remains a talent to be reckoned with, and this album shows he's a long, long way from used up.
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Mar 30, 2017Crowell’s brutally honest musings on his life and loves is a case-study that makes the reflective Close Ties a poignant and emotionally affecting portrait of one of American music’s most captivating, talented and honest artists.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 10
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Mixed: 1 out of 10
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Negative: 1 out of 10
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Aug 26, 2017