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Sep 9, 2014While the familiar ache still haunts Single Mothers, Earle treats it with new wisdom, choosing instead to ramble forward, rather than perseverate and drift waywardly back.
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Q MagazineNov 13, 2014It's been a rocky road, but maybe he's finally home. [Dec 2014, p.109]
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Sep 8, 2014There are moments where Single Mothers feels like art therapy as much as music, but this album communicates its pain with intelligence and a gentle touch, and as a singer and lyricist Earle grows with each album; there are more than a few moments of brilliance on this set if you don't mind sharing a rough and lonesome road with Earle for a while.
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Sep 8, 2014Whatever category you might inhabit, Justin Townes Earle has something here you need to hear.
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Sep 9, 2014Earle’s consistency is both his friend and his enemy on Single Mothers. In its quest for poignant empathy and delicate strokes of storytelling, it doesn’t vary much in tone.
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Sep 8, 2014Earle further proves that taking the straight and narrow and settling down can reap the most rewards.
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UncutSep 25, 2014The Tom Waits-ish jazz of the title track, the slinky CCR-ish trundle of "My Baby Drives" and the gentle pedal-steel-led-weeper "White Gardenias" confirm that Earle's quieting of his demons has lost him little. [Nov 2014, p.73]
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Sep 25, 2014What we’re seeing here with Justin Townes Earle is an artist finding his sound, not an artist who’s simply trying to find a way to stay relevant.
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MagnetSep 18, 2014His gravelly croon is still sombre, but now it carries a glimmer of light in the darkness. [No. 113, p.53]
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MojoNov 7, 2014He serves us a telling portion of autobiographical, Nashville-flavoured Americana. [Nov 2014, p.96]
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Under The RadarSep 11, 2014We have here a nice mix of balmy love songs and enthusiastic foot-stompers with only a scarce few clunkers. [Sep/Oct 2014, p.81]
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Sep 11, 2014It’s a sad irony that just as Earle has hit his stylistic stride--beautiful, pedal-steel-soaked country and poppier soul--he’s writing fewer tracks that’ll floor you.
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Sep 9, 2014His phrasing, always nuanced, is more emotive than ever. It suggests a life where songs are the only painkillers that still work.
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Sep 8, 2014Single Mothers is at its best when it's at its most deliberately spare.