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Robert Ellis
- Record Label: New West
- Release Date: Feb 11, 2014
- Summary: The third full-length release for the Nashville-based singer-songwriter was produced by Jacquire King.
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- Record Label: New West
- Genre(s): Country, Americana, Pop/Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter
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Top Track
| Good Intentions | |
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| I don't care how wrong it is I've got your intentions And I just can't hide it anymore I made my decision You pulled that collar round my neck And... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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UncutFeb 11, 2014Ellis' purist, even traditionalist, voice is the perfect vessel for his sanguine portraits of ordinary people, battered and bruised but never without hope. [Mar 2014, p.72]
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Feb 11, 2014Ellis broadens his musical reach beyond deadly accurate classic country to often austere arrangements that reflect his small etchings of real life without aggressive genre-coding.
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Feb 11, 2014It’s the personal narratives that are the most poignant.
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Feb 28, 2014It's an elusive and subjective notion, but it's impossible to listen to this rich, remarkable album and not be left thinking that this is the sound of Ellis coming into his own.
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Feb 14, 2014Producer Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Kings of Leon, Norah Jones) gives each song a poppy slant even when the lyrical content wrestles with the jetsam of life.
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MojoApr 23, 2014An album that falls between traditional and progressive country stools. [May 2014, p.89]
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Mar 12, 2014Part of the problem remains in Ellis' reedy voice, which mutes the impact of the songs like the soul-stirring title track and a misplaced cover of Paul Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years."