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  • Summary: This is the 13th studio release for the Nebraska-based singer-songwriter.
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  • Record Label: Woodsist
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Indie Rock, Lo-Fi
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Nostalgia Blues
See you still haven't quit smoking Is that really all that you can think to say? I remember your bedsheets smudged with ashes and burns When you... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Magnet
    Apr 15, 2015
    90
    A full band plays behind Joyner's acoustic guitar and quiet vocals, but they employ the same restraint that marks his singing, making very quiet note resonate with low-key, understated emotion. [No. 119, p.57]
  2. Apr 2, 2015
    80
    Joyner's poem-songs are worth lingering over. As it turns out, his idiosyncratic sandpaper tenor and low spacious guitar style are the perfect instruments through which to deliver them.
  3. Apr 2, 2015
    80
    In spite of all of this [still packed with his slow tempos, slurred sadness, and dour imagery], Grass, Branch and Bone stands as one of the easiest to inhabit of all of Joyner’s albums. Happily, it’s also as rewarding to explore as anything he’s done.
  4. Apr 2, 2015
    80
    Grass, Branch & Bone is a low-key triumph from an artist who had made a career out of demonstrating that in music, simplicity is often the approach that tells us the most.
  5. Apr 2, 2015
    80
    Another beautiful and deeply touching Simon Joyner record.
  6. Under The Radar
    Apr 17, 2015
    65
    This weathered, word-drunk troubadour is still in full possession of a journalist's eye and poet's ear. [Apr - May 2015, p.89]
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