by
Robert Ellis
- Record Label: New West
- Release Date: Feb 11, 2014
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MojoApr 23, 2014An album that falls between traditional and progressive country stools. [May 2014, p.89]
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Feb 28, 2014Despite his desire to move more towards pop on this third album, Robert Ellis can’t prevent his country roots showing through.
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Feb 13, 2014As the storyteller in these songs, Ellis injects just enough emotional distance between himself and the subject matter to prove that there is another side. And that’s where he lives. It might not be airy and bright, but there is solid ground under his feet.
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Feb 11, 2014The young Texas songwriter, who has proved his honky-tonk chops onstage, takes this opportunity to offer 11 expansive folk-pop songs that are closer in weary spirit to Paul Simon.
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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."