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Avg: 4.0 (48 ratings)
- Date Released: June 23, 2009
- Genre: Country/Folk
- Style: Contemporary Country
- Label: Dualtone
A noisy, catchy, caustic affair primed to join a long list of split-up standard bearers
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We Say...
Certainly the first concept album ever to revolve around divorcing a Dixie Chick, the latest by Emily Robison's Texas ex unsurprisingly draws sonic and emotional inspiration from such split-up standard bearers as Rumours, Blood on the Tracks and Tunnel of Love. Or at least from the artists who made them: the title opener, as catchy as it is caustic, gets Fleetwood Mac's '70s L.A. freeway folk down, very appropriately seeing how being sun-baked and snow-blinded in SoCal is its subject; the rocking talking blues that follows could be Dylanesque '60s garage punks Mouse and Traps a decade down the line. By track 8, Charlie is conjuring up early-Bruce characters named Blueball Betty and Chainsaw Bill; two songs later, at album's end, he's slowing "Racing in the Street" to a Nebraska crawl, leaving wifey home worrying while he's out tearing up the town.
Even when Robison starts celebrating alcoholism or resorting to rain metaphors or feeling sorry for himself, the guitars — frequently noisier than you'd expect, owing as much to psychedelic Byrds as to Lindsey Buckingham, and shaded by mandolin and pedal steel — win out. And the fact that Charlie still seems to empathize with Emily sure doesn't hurt.
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Beautiful Day |
2:54 |
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Yellow Blues |
3:40 |
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| 03. | |
Down Again |
4:12 |
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| 04. | |
Nothin' Better To Do |
3:36 |
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| 05. | |
Reconsider |
3:40 |
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| 06. | |
Feelin' Good |
3:54 |
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| 07. | |
If The Rain Don't Stop |
3:26 |
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| 08. | |
Middle Of The Night |
2:59 |
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She's So Fine |
2:17 |
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Racin' In The Streets |
5:55 |
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10 Total Tracks, 36:33 Total Length
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Credits
- Charlie Sexton - Guitar (Acoustic) // Charlie Sexton - Guitar (Electric) // Charlie Sexton - Guitar (12 String Electric) // Bukka Allen - Accordion // Bukka Allen - Organ (Hammond) // Rich Brotherton - Guitar (Acoustic) // Rich Brotherton - Mandolin // Rich Brotherton - Cittern // Rich Brotherton - National Steel Guitar // Rich Brotherton - Guitar (12 String Acoustic) // Kim Deschamps - Guitar (Steel) // Charlie Robison - Guitar (Acoustic) // Charlie Robison - Guitar (Acoustic) // Charlie Robison - Vocals // Charlie Robison - Vocals // Charlie Robison - Producer // Charlie Robison - Producer // Jim Shea - Photography // Kevin Carroll - Guitar (Electric) // Kevin Szymanski - Engineer // Tony Castle - Mixing // Scott Esbeck - Guitar (Bass) // Carl Dunn - Photography // Warren Hood - Fiddle // Alex McCollough - Mastering // Andrew Hernandez - Engineer
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