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Jul 20, 2017Goodnight Rhonda Lee is hardly Atkins' first stylistic excursion into the past, but here, having an audibly sharp focus, a lot on her mind, and a leave-it-all-on-tape performance ethic make for her strongest impression since her debut.
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MojoJul 25, 2017Sets a high bar. But she clears it, with soulful, oddball, Jersey-girl-in-Nashville aplomb. [Sep 2017, p.96]
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Jul 21, 2017Amid soulful, R&B-indebted sounds married smoothly to the more country-leaning, Atkins has created her best and most resounding work yet.
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Jul 20, 2017Goodnight Rhonda Lee never feels like a pastiche or a rip off of classic soul songs, but a celebration of the genre and life. Yes some songs could be trimmed a bit and maybe some of the motifs would be tighter, but overall this is an album by someone who knows exactly what she wants to say and how she wants to say it.
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Jul 18, 2017The result is intimate and arresting.
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Jul 18, 2017With Goodnight Rhonda Lee, Nicole Atkins gets all the pieces to fit. The singer may not have been made for these times, but she creates a defining portrait of an artist whose grasp of the past creates ageless, enduring music for any year.
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Jul 18, 2017Everything on Goodnight Rhonda Lee is immediate. Throughout, Atkins’s lyrics eschew metaphor in favor of a more confessional mode, and her arrangements are punchy and direct.
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Jul 25, 2017A little bit country, a whole lotta soul, from the dirty stomp of "Brokedown Luck" to the breezy pop of "Sleepwalking," a good deal of Goodnight Rhonda Lee would've been at home on '70s pop radio.
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UncutJul 18, 2017Aching pop-soul bathed in nostalgic warmth of another era. ... Yet Atkins is also possessed of a singular, torchy voice that floods these songs with genuine fervour. [Aug 2017, p.25]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 11
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Mixed: 2 out of 11
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Negative: 1 out of 11
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Jun 27, 2018