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Apr 16, 2018The Straight Hits! might not have the visceral punch of The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads or the openness of Last of the County Gentlemen but it has more than its fair share of moments, even if Pearson admits breaking several of the five rules, but obeys an unwritten Sixth Pillar: musical rules are made to be broken.
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Apr 13, 2018Each track here employs "straight" in the title, but Josh T. Pearson remains crooked as a bag of snakes.
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Jun 20, 2018This is an album--much like its predecessor--that's utterly pure of heart. The jovial uplift of those first few songs might, at first, come off as affectation, but as a metaphor for life—how the exuberance of youth and young love and ambition falters and fades into an existential black hole, giving way to work and bills and the inevitable death of everyone you know and love--it couldn't be more incisive. A welcome return.
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Apr 18, 2018The main take away from The Straight Hits! is that Josh T. Pearson has a lot more facets to his music than he may have previously let on.
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UncutApr 10, 2018It's not all straight A's, but that hardly seems the point. This feels like a necessary act of burning and rebuilding. [May 2018, p.33]
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Apr 14, 2018Straight listening from start 2 finish from Texas gentlemen Josh T Pearson. Straight 10