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- Summary: The second full-length release for the country singer-songwriter (who is also a member of Pistol Annies) was produced by Vince Gill and Justin Niebank.
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- Record Label: Warner Music
- Genre(s): Country, Contemporary Country, Country-Pop
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The Blade | |
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I let your love in, I have the scar I felt the razor against my heart I thought we were both in all the way But you caught it by the handle And I... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 14
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Mixed: 0 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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Jul 24, 2015The majority of Monroe’s superb third album hunkers down with heartache and struggle.
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Jul 20, 2015The Blade further serves to position her as one of the premiere and rare female neo-traditionalists in the format.
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Jul 20, 2015A diverse set of songs but the key to Monroe's appeal is that she seems neither showy nor calculating when she expands beyond her classic country roots. She rolls easy, luxuriating in that exquisite sound, her soft touch making the heartbreak and the humor seem equally alluring.
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Jul 22, 2015In 2013, she released the elegantly scarred “Like a Rose,” a striking album that showed her to be a sly, progressive songwriter and a nimble, tradition-minded singer. At its best, The Blade, her follow-up, continues that arc.
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Aug 5, 2015She knows what it is to crave whiskey, to lust after men, to flout the petty hypocrisy of small-town country life and then cry and ask Jesus for forgiveness. This time she wove this narrative of Southern womanhood into The Blade and, by forgoing judgment and flaunting all its incoherent complexities, made it universal.
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Jul 23, 2015It’s definitely more expansive sonically than Monroe’s previous work, which doesn’t mean it sounds disjointed; rather, it comes across as presenting different sides of the same artist.
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Jul 20, 2015A couple of wooly moments aside, Monroe’s third album, The Blade, continues a remarkable hot streak for writers Luke Laird, Jessi Alexander, Chris Stapleton, and Monroe herself.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Aug 21, 2015
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Sep 27, 2015
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