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- Summary: The first studio release in six years for the singer-songwriter was co-produced by C.C. Adcock and Mike Napolitano.
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- Record Label: Complicated Game
- Genre(s): Folk, Americana, Pop/Rock, Roots Rock
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Copper Canteen | |
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Honey, don't you be yelling at me when I'm cleaning my gun I'll wash the blood off the tailgate when deer season's done We got one more weekend to... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 9
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Mixed: 0 out of 9
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Negative: 0 out of 9
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UncutFeb 25, 2015McMurtry's flair for the cinematic shines brighter than ever. [Apr 2015, p.78]
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Feb 24, 2015He's a storyteller with a literary knack for using detail and narrative to draw complex, relatable characters, and his storytelling finesse has never been more evident than it is here.
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Feb 24, 2015Complicated Game is brilliant album, dense and thoughtful as McMurtry swirls around inside the heads of another set of fascinating characters.
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Feb 24, 2015Staunch and undeterred to the brink of defiance, Complicated Game finds McMurtry’s rugged resilience again setting the tone.
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Mar 11, 2015The new album doesn’t have the political commentary that we saw on those two [Childish Things (2005) and Just Us Kids (2008)], but it’s likely we’re going to see Complicated Game on the nominee list come next year. It’s that good.
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Jul 8, 2015This 53-year-old minor folk vet’s drawl doesn’t obscure his flow, making it all the easier to follow his tales in real-time, inhabiting a husband cleaning his deer rifle or the bent-backed Deaver who watched as “Uncle Sam took away the neighbors’ land.”
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MojoApr 22, 2015There's a sense in almost all the songs of open roads, either beckoning or closed in, or both. [May 2015, p.99]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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