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- Summary: The 1970s Nantucket-area singer's sophomore album is rereleased with tracks from his "Right on for the Darkness" single.
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- Record Label: Numero
- Genre(s): Soul, Singer/Songwriter, Progressive Folk, Folk Jazz
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Mar 24, 2011Telling The Truth is an hour of purely enjoyable songs that could have been, and are luckily not, lost gems.
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Mar 24, 2011Even without many fast songs, it's a well-paced album.
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Mar 24, 2011Telling the Truth has its moments of deeply felt poignancy, but its real value lies in its highly creative and endlessly listenable assimilation of soul, pop, rock, and folk signifiers.
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Mar 24, 2011Warm, soulful, occasionally political, Wright was a private-press gem who deserved more.
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Mar 24, 2011Wright is neither as commanding a singer nor anywhere near as indelible a lyricist as the singular Withers, to be sure, but this only further serves to highlight the appeal of Telling The Truth, namely how seamlessly it exists as part of its era rather than in any way defining it.