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Oct 14, 2016Difficult to switch off, Building A Beginning promises to carry balmy summer vibes across winter’s chill.
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Nov 4, 2016We’re a long way from Super Collider, but there’s really not a duff card in the pack.
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MojoOct 14, 2016It bursts with love--for family, for the power of musicianship, but most of all, like Lidell's hero Stevie Wonder, for the art of storytelling. [Nov 2016, p.88]
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Oct 14, 2016The songwriting is so comfortably strong and the production so toasty that you’re soon swooning along with them.
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Oct 14, 2016Some of the lyrics are so direct that they scan as trite, yet they're expressed with soul-stirring, serve-the-song conviction, and he's in the top tier when it comes to pure skill. Moreover, the songs are of undeniably high quality, filled with joy, gratitude, and devotion.
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Oct 20, 2016While the familiar is always comforting, Lidell is a tinkerer at heart who thrives on mixing and matching styles and sounds. Listeners who expected the unexpected this time around might be disappointed by such a return to tradition.
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Oct 17, 2016If this is his new beginning, it’s an unambitious one: Lidell has never sounded like more of a traditionalist than he does on this amiable but uncomplicated record.