- Record Label: ATO
- Release Date: Sep 11, 2012
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Sep 13, 2012It's a brave, compelling collection from an artist who continues to evolve in remarkable and unexpected ways.
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Sep 18, 2012Sweetly skeletal arrangements featuring various bandmates and his bassist dad underpin the quietest and most winning singing of his career, with lyrics so crystalline you never need the booklet.
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Sep 11, 2012Though the album is more about the lyrics than the music, damned if those lyrics aren't some of Hood's best-which is saying something, given that Hood has a command of imagery and observation as keen as any prose writer working today.
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MagnetOct 22, 2012A wonderful rumination on late nights, leaving home and self-medicating. [No.92 p.54]
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Sep 14, 2012An affecting, lyrical record that makes you feel blessed for not having lived through it, but wiser, so graceful for the ride. [Oct 2012, p.74]
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Sep 11, 2012These songs evoke images and conjure emotions that are as descriptive and riveting as any printed word.
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Oct 9, 2012The post divorce rant "Better Off Without" and bittersweet Kelly Hogan duet "Come Back Little Star" about their late friend Vic Chesnutt are among the treasures here.
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Sep 13, 2012Heat Lightning is the solo album as balancing act-one of its greatest accomplishments is that it gives equal attention to a destructive past without romanticizing it and a satisfying present without simplifying it.
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Sep 11, 2012Fans of his [Drive-By] Truckers tunes will find much to love here.
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Sep 11, 2012Even the sketches deliver an emotional gut punch.
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Sep 11, 2012It's a placeholder album from a man who has already written 20 songs that are better than the ones here.
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