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- Summary: The latest release for the country singer-songwriter features guest appearances from Rosanne Cash, Sheryl Crow and John Paul White.
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- Record Label: New West Records
- Genre(s): Country
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| It's like I'm sitting at a bus stop waiting for a train Exactly how I got here is hard to explain My heart's in the right place, what's left of it I... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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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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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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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, 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.
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Aug 26, 2017
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