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- Record Label: Lost Highway
- Genre(s): Country, Folk, Americana, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Contemporary Folk, Alternative Country-Rock, Country-Folk
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Positive: 6 out of 11
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Mixed: 5 out of 11
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This moody, recession-themed collection from Bingham--who won an Oscar this year for a song from Crazy Heart--is unlikely to boost anyone's morale during our current downturn, but Junky Star might make some folks feel less alone.
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Moreover, on Junky Star, Bingham's stripped voice sounds at turns plaintive, scrappy, and hypnotic, with plenty of subtlety and a ringing vibrato.
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Bingham has delivered a set of songs that mirrors our uncertain times in a musical language that doesn't unduly distort or romanticise them.
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The collaboration works, not least because emphasis is placed on the grounded heave of Mr. Bingham's fine working band, the Dead Horses: Corby Schaub on guitar and mandolin, Elijah Ford on bass and Matt Smith on drums.
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Q MagazineAward-winning country from the school of hard knocks. [Oct. 2010, p. 103]
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Bingham made Junky Star with Crazy Heart collaborator T-Bone Burnett, but the A-list producer mostly resists applying his trademark chamber-roots atmosphere.
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On his third disc, his lyrics come off as more cinematic than believable; the title track finds him "sleeping on the Santa Monica pier with the junkies and the stars."
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