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Loud guitars, gritty vocals, and more soul than a Sunday morning sermon best sums up Carolina.
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It’s a testament to the quality of the songwriting and the force of the band that, of his two albums, Carolina actually qualifies as the more distinctive one and the better one.
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Thankfully, though, the singer-songwriter imbues his work with real soul, and classic country fans could do worse than to worship at the altar of this Church.
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Unfortunately, the bulk of the record takes the opposite approach, with bombastic arrangements and dumbed-down, pandering lyrics that are too easy and too desperate for mainstream approval.