Where Shall You Take Me
- Damien Jurado
- Band Name: Damien Jurado
- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Release Date: Mar 18, 2003
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72The sparse and largely unobtrusive music, and Jurado’s wanting vocal range place the emphasis on storytelling, one his strongest assets. The results, however, are a mixed bag.
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A small triumph, but a triumph nonetheless.
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80There'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.
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His most rewarding and assured work yet.
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80Easily Jurado's most successful album, both musically and lyrically.
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70Jurado's songwriting is solid, if sometimes slightly bland -- but a lack of idiosyncrasy is to be expected when an artist references such a recognizable, well-mined sound.
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Where Shall You Take Me? brings Jurado back to familiar, minimalist territory.
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100While 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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[Jurado] may be our generation's Neil Young. [Apr 2003, p.78]
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90Not for the faint-hearted, Damien Jurado is a habit which won't necessarily bring joy to the listener. But once acquired, you will find it hard to kick. [Apr 2003, p.106]
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90Jurado's spare, edgy songs are miniature masterpieces of mood and character. [#229, p.68]
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80Less, in this case, proves to be much more; Jurado's songs just cut closer when unadorned. [#58, p.95]
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JohnW8its not quite rehearsals for departure, but its close
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bjorkboll8Beats Will Oldham at his own game. Reminiscent of old american traditionals, especially when Rosie Thomas' vocals transcend time and space.
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