- Record Label: Vanguard
- Release Date: Jun 5, 2012
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MagnetJul 26, 2012Some [of the songs] are funny, some are sad, and the best are somewhere in between. [#88, p.54]
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Jul 20, 2012The writing is as crisp as the playing, ornate but without added contrivance, a credit to producer Joe Henry. A tuneful 10-song novel.
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Jul 20, 2012Crowell and Karr have written an interesting album here, but it's no Diamonds & Dirt, the 1988 album that is Crowell's best, and an album that deftly straddles the personal and the general in a way this one does not, however intelligently wrought it is.
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Jul 20, 2012Collectively, they touch upon a complex range of emotions and interconnections, supported by sparse and countrified instrumentation that sets an appropriately Texan tone.
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Jul 20, 2012The him-songs fit neatly alongside the autobiographical gems on his best albums like The Houston Kid and The Outsider. But the her-songs are the ones that really resonate.