- Record Label: Bloodshot
- Release Date: Mar 26, 2012
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Mar 16, 2012With material like this, he may even find a way to add a chapter to the Great American Songbook.
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Mar 27, 2012Nothing's Gonna Change... is ultimately the kind of album you can curl up into, let the warm tones surround you and rest easy.
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Q MagazineApr 13, 2012Memphis soul is tapped by JTE ... the regret and pain of his songs harking back to the days when drugs had him thrown out of his father's band. [May 2012, p.91]
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UncutApr 4, 2012Nothings Gonna Change shimmers in spare arrangements, ghostly keyboards, textured horns, and, occasionally, a talking-style vocal style borrowed from Springsteen's Nebraska. [May 2012, p.72]
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Mar 29, 2012This entirely live album is warmer and more consistent [than 2010's Harlem River Blues], with a lot of heart.
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Mar 26, 2012Earle has proven that he can embrace the past, look forward to the future and find peace through his music.
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Mar 30, 2012Rich organ swells and muscular horn charts mark many of the 10 tracks, with a live, off-the-floor groove that levitates.
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Apr 11, 2012All in all, Nothing's Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now is a good record, but it's not success it could have been as the songs are not as strong as one would have hoped.
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Apr 10, 2012Provides a vital, authentic taste of the United States, one steeped in history but simultaneously bang up-to-date.
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MagnetApr 6, 2012Only when [Earle] tries to escape his tuneful-yet-limited vocal range do the songs struggle. [#86, p.54]
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Apr 2, 2012It's an introspective work - family breakdowns, fractured romances and his own restless, addictive character pour forth in a variety of low-key yet lush arrangements featuring sombre brass accents.
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Mar 28, 2012The introspection suits Earle's subtle shift from raucous country to mellow Memphis soul with the tasteful addition of horns and more organ.
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Mar 27, 2012While the rest of Nothing's Gonna Change sometimes falls prey to sheer navel-gazing, overall it displays some clear signs of maturity in someone who remains more determined than ever to carry on his father's legacy.
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Mar 27, 2012That Earle breathes life into those well-worn ideas [love, legacy, life as a road] is a tribute to the rough-hewn elegance of his writing and his voice.
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Under The RadarMar 22, 2012In many ways, it's his best work yet and does a great deal more to solidify his growing reputation as one of America's premier songwriters. [Mar 2012, p.89]
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Mar 16, 2012Earle's tendency to wander might be more of a problem if the accompanying music wasn't so intimate and alluring.
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Mar 16, 2012What makes Nothing's Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now such a harrowing, albeit minor, addition to his catalog is how matter-of-factly Earle presents himself.
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Mar 29, 2012This brevity [30-minute run time] doesn't make the record bad by any stretch, but it does make it feel cut off. The warm, gauzy sounds here invite deeper exploration, and instead Earle gets in and gets out all too quickly.
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Mar 29, 2012While it's true this album often feels like the listener is being asked to endure a personal confession without redemption as a reward that is also part of its hopefully deliberate, perverse charm.
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Mar 26, 2012Restlessness and drive applauded, but oh for the sound of those demons.
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Mar 22, 2012It's never an essential one, however: that air of self-deprecating resignation seeps into the music, which shuffles along unassumingly, occasionally enlivened by a rock'n'roll rhythm or a shimmer of soulful horns, without betraying much character of its own.
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MojoMar 22, 2012An album of melancholy and heartbreak that's at its best when the songs fall between all-out country rock ballads and bare bones ballads. [Apr 2012, p.84]
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Mar 21, 2012It's a watered-down Earle, perhaps more than we'd expect, but it works.
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Mar 16, 2012Only a handful of isolated moments convey the same attention to songcraft and the clear perspective that have made Earle's previous albums so captivating.