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  • Summary: The second full-length release for folk trio Bonny Light Horseman was produced by the band's Josh Kaufman.
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  1. Uncut
    Oct 6, 2022
    90
    It's impeccably crafted, with Mitchell and Johnson's radiant harmonies to the fore over arrangements that sometime evoke the bittersweet bliss of Fleetwood Mac ot turn-of-the-70s Grateful Dead. [Nov 2022, p.26]
  2. 80
    It’s adventurous and elastic, played and sung with honesty and a sure sense of the mutual lyrical, compositional, and especially vocal abilities of its three talented musicians.
  3. Mojo
    Oct 6, 2022
    80
    Lovely vocals from both Mitchell and Johnson and a mellow, timeless mood. [Nov 2022, p.87]
  4. Oct 13, 2022
    77
    Rolling Golden Holy exudes a communal, back-to-basics charm. The threesome operate within an eternal country-folk formula of less-is-more that fosters a sense of instant familiarity.
  5. Oct 18, 2022
    75
    It’s a sweet embrace of an album that, even as it whispers to you it’s loss and longing, props you up with a caring and kindly hand.
  6. Oct 14, 2022
    73
    Mitchell, Johnson, and Kaufman may have started with a fascination for certain traditions, but it’s their collaboration—and the potent exchange of those talents—that makes Rolling Golden Holy gleam.
  7. Oct 10, 2022
    60
    Part of the pleasure of covers albums is comparing the original with the nuanced update; this album misses that moment when the three Horsepeople wrap their dulcet pipes and jazzy arrangements around an ancient, oaky institution. The past, though, is still very much present.

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