Where Shall You Take Me - Damien Jurado
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88 out of 100

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8.3 out of 10

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  • Summary: The fifth full-length for the Seattle-based singer-songwriter returns with ten new mostly-acoustic tales about America's heartland, including live favorite "Texas to Ohio."

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  1. Positive: 12 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
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  1. Mojo
    100
    While the comparisons to Springsteen's Nebraska and Gillian Welch's Time (The Revelator) are obvious, they don't do justice to Jurado's wholly original craft. [Jun 2003, p.98]
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  2. PopMatters
    80
    There's a core of strength running through this darkly unobtrusive music which lends it a coherence of vision, drawing as it does on place and character as it roams the less fashionable byways of an older America, hitching the frayed strands of the past to the lurching wagon of the present.
  3. All Music Guide
    80
    A small triumph, but a triumph nonetheless.
  4. Magnet
    80
    Less, in this case, proves to be much more; Jurado's songs just cut closer when unadorned. [#58, p.95]
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  1. willieb
    9
    Not since I See A Darkness has someone so succesfully spun the thin thread that lies between hope and despondency. Far and away his best work in years; Jurado hits both points high and low (albeit more frequently) with comparable eclat.… Expand
  2. bjorkboll
    8
    Beats Will Oldham at his own game. Reminiscent of old american traditionals, especially when Rosie Thomas' vocals transcend time and space.
  3. JohnW
    8
    its not quite rehearsals for departure, but its close

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