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- Summary: The Bad Liver's banjo player releases his latest album of country music with influences from blues, rap, and rock music.
- Record Label: ATO
- Genre(s): Country
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Pizza Box is a long way from the punky bluegrass of the Bad Livers, and may be the best album Barnes has ever made.
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Some songs hint at the Band, but Mr. Barnes also cranks up to feedback volume on the stomping “Road.” Behind his down-home magical realism is an underlying benevolence.
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Barnes is a clever lyricist with a punk-rock past who understands the raw simplicity of a good country tune.
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The now-Pacific Northwester's tart vocals almost as pointillistic as his picking, percussion big and roomy beneath him.