Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
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Far too much attention has been focused on this album’s tortured history; band makes weird album, label rejects it, band buys it back and puts it out a year later through another arm of the same corporation. For the record, wildly overexcited Radiohead comparisons aside, the album’s not that weird–it merely ventures a bit further down the sonic-shambles roads explored on the band’s previous two releases. As has been noted elsewhere, the most valid reference point for the occasional pop deconstructions of YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT is Big Star’s THIRD/SISTER LOVERS, not Thom Yorke and company.
The most significant factor in this nominal weird-out is the presence of producer Jim O’Rourke, whose avant-rock tendencies loom large here. Nevertheless, beneath the layers of warped keyboards and slow-death guitars, Wilco mastermind Jeff Tweedy has loaded the album with catchy (yes, catchy) tunes that mix the pure power-pop of mid-period Beach Boys and the aforementioned Big Star with the rootsy background of Tweedy’s former group Uncle Tupelo and an unmistakable streak of singer-songwriter melancholy. Don’t be scared away by ridiculous assessments of this as a “difficult” album; any Wilco fan may enter this hotel without trepidation.
Tracklisting
1. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
2. Kamera
3. Radio Cure
4. War On War
5. Jesus, Etc.
6. Ashes of American Flags
7. Heavy Metal Drummer
8. I’m the Man Who Loves You
9. Pot Kettle Black
10. Poor Places
11. Reservations
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (5/9/02, pp.71-72) – 4 out of 5 stars – “…An earthy, moving psychedelia, eleven iridescent-country songs about surviving a blown mind and a broken heart….the enchanting sound of things falling apart-and gingerly, doggedly coming together again…”
Spin (1/03, p.70) – Ranked #2 on Spin’s list of 2002’s “Albums of the Year”
Spin (3/02, p.131) – “…The record includes fragments of treated piano, static interference, [and] random noises….YANKEE isn’t your typical Americana or alt-country record…”
Q (May 2002, p.121) – 4 out of 5 stars – “…This elegant, world-weary…album ploughs enthusiastically into the leftfield…”
Uncut (1/03, p.94) – Ranked #4 in Uncut’s “100 Best Albums of the Year” – “…Wilco’s finest, its pretty electronic textures and melodicism making a heartbreaking album…”
CMJ (12/30/02, p.10) – Ranked #5 on CMJ’s “Top 10 of 2002″
CMJ (4/22/02, p.4) – “…[A] beautifully strange mix of organic textures and oblique poetics, all of it gently pulsating with a backwoodsy tech-head feel…”
Mojo (Publisher) (p.26) – Ranked #26 in Mojo’s “100 Modern Classics” — “Jeff Tweedy suffers personal crisis and pines for innocence lost before eventually arriving at a redemption of sorts.”
Mojo (Publisher) (1/03, p.73) – Ranked #4 in Mojo’s “Best Albums of 2002″
Mojo (Publisher) (5/02, p.99) – “…Truly, a remarkable record…”
NME (Magazine) (4/20/02, p.22) – 8 out of 10 – “…it’s a gripping darkness that doesn’t often lift. It’s hard going but worth it, and that is undoubtedly their point.”
Paste (magazine) – “It’s Tweedy’s growth as a lyricist that’s most arreting….Tweedy alternates subtle and startling twists of phrase to paint pictures of intense longing, wistful nostalgia, moments of pure joy and utter despair.”
Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
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While Wilco’s fifth studio album, A GHOST IS BORN, didn’t come equipped with quite the same artsy, experimental flourishes as the album’s infamous predecessor, YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT, it made officially clear that the band’s days in the world of alt-country had long since passed. SKY BLUE SKY (2007) finds the band not so much in a holding pattern, but rather a state of artistic contentment. The album moves one step further away from Jim O’Rourke’s atmospheric production style, and finds a pleasant mid-tempo groove that reminds one of PRETZEL LOGIC-era Steely Dan, mid-period Dylan, and even certain elements of John Lennon’s solo work.
Of course this is still Jeff Tweedy’s band, which means SKY BLUE SKY never strays too far from what has emerged as a basic Wilco template. The constantly shifting Chicago ensemble (in its umpteenth incarnation by the album’s release) still displays an instrumental precision and studio professionalism while working within a newfangled roots template, and Tweedy himself remains as searching as always, both lyrically and musically. With nary a rave-up in sight, the album could be criticized for being overly serene, but in a career marked by nearly constant tumult and controversy, it’s more appropriate to see this as Jeff Tweedy’s much needed and well-earned rest.
Tracklisting
1. Either Way
2. You Are My Face
3. Impossible Germany
4. Sky Blue Sky
5. Side with the Seeds
6. Shake It Off
7. Please Be Patient with Me
8. Hate It Here
9. Leave Me (Like You Found Me)
10. Walken
11. What Light
12. On & On & On
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (p.87) – 4 stars out of 5 — “[O]ften beautiful, disarmingly simple music; it really sounds like six guys playing in a room, and no doubt that’s how they wanted it.”
Rolling Stone (p.116) – Included in Rolling Stone’s “50 Top Albums of the Year 2007″ — “[There is] a psychedelic grace and communal warmth both in the music…and Tweedy’s lyric optimism.”
Spin (p.89) – 4 stars out of 5 — “[T]his is a near-perfect album by a band that seems, finally, to have found their identity.”
Alternative Press (p.159) – 4 stars out of 5 — “Cline positively smolders, ebbing and flowing between the rest of the band, laying intricate groundwork for these songs…”
Alternative Press (p.128) – Included in Alternative Press’s ‘10 Essential Albums Of 2007′ — “[With] Jeff Tweedy’s ‘I’ve been to hell and back’ vocals and Nels Cline’s delicately constructed fretwork…”
Magnet (p.112) – “Jeff Tweedy has never sounded more at ease than on the aptly named SKY BLUE SKY….The album’s tone is set by the gentle string swells and delicate, jazzy guitar solo punctuating opener ‘Either Way’…”
The Wire (p.68) – “Cline is one of the best things to have happened to Wilco, his improvisational style bringing some spontaneity to the group’s [sound]….SKY BLUE SKY is a step forward for Wilco…”
No Depression (p.87) – “[T]he way Tweedy and company work the details is satisfying, and often inspired. ‘Either Way’ links musical sections together in a manner that lays out the album’s strategies.”
Gillian Welch – Soul Journey
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SOUL JOURNEY, the follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2001 outing TIME (THE REVELATOR), finds Gillian Welch and creative partner David Rawlings getting creatively looser and enlisting the aid of a back-up band. The decision to flesh out the sound beyond the duo format (as had been the case on the past couple of albums), ends up being a successful one. The result is a blend of traditional songs such as “Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor” with self-penned cuts like the haunting “One Monkey” and the cantering “Lowlands.” The languid aura infusing most of these 10 songs gets blown away with “Wrecking Ball,” a meaty-sounding original tune that not only borrows its title from a Neil Young song, but offers a combination of gnarly guitar and sonic build-up that seems like a hat-tip to Crazy Horse.
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1. Look at Miss Ohio
2. Make Me Down a Pallet On Your Floor
3. Wayside/back in Time
4. I Had a Real Good Mother and Father
5. Sweet Bird of Truth
6. No One Knows My Name
7. Lowlands
8. One Little Song
9. I Made a Lovers Prayer
10. Wrecking Ball
Professional Reviews
Entertainment Weekly (6/6/03, p.79) – “…Aching songs about restless daughters that reference classic soul and pastoral psychedelia…”
Uncut (01/04, pp.84-7) – Ranked #17 in Uncut’s “Albums Of The Year 2003″
Uncut (8/03, pp.96-7) – 4 stars out of 5 – “…Loose and laid-back, SOUL JOURNEY is a porchlight songbook of a record, a close-to-perfect soundtrack for a country summer…”
Mojo (Publisher) (01/01/04, p.58) – Ranked #20 in Mojo’s “The Best of 2003″
Mojo (Publisher) (7/03, p.100) – 5 stars out of 5 – “…SOUL JOURNEY plays to a host of new strengths….It’s pretty much perfect…”
Gillian Welch – Revival
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The debut album by Gillian Welch is aptly titled. In an alt-country scene primarily focused on adapting the sound and feeling of old-time traditional country to its own ends, this singer-songwriter, along with her ever-present musical partner David Rawlings, is more interesting in taking the sound of the Carter Family and transplanting it whole into the middle of the 1990s. T-Bone Burnett produced the album with such a sharp eye towards period authenticity that even the occasional modern musical elements (bits of electric guitar and drums, and keyboards) sound of a piece. The songwriting is uniformly excellent, with mature, emotionally resonant songs like “Orphan Girl” sitting comfortably next to such bluesy character pieces as “Tear My Stillhouse Down.” Although Welch’s future albums would maintain this high level of quality, REVIVAL is an impressive debut of a richly talented singer and songwriter.
Tracklisting
1. Orphan Girl
2. Annabelle
3. Pass You By
4. Barroom Girls
5. Parasite
6. By the Mark
7. Paper Wings
8. Tear My Stillhouse Down
9. Acony Bell
10. Only One and Only
Professional Reviews
Entertainment Weekly (5/3/96, p.78) – “…a ringer for a real Appalachian, if not the long-lost li’l sis to the Stanley Brothers. Twangy tales of forlorn farm laborers, grieving moms and lovers, and Jesus sound impossibly authentic….[REVIVAL] gets an early lead on debut-of-the-year honors.” – Rating: A
Q (1/02, p.123) – 3 out of 5 stars – “A Los Angeleno Pixies fan who sounds like some God-fearing 1920s Appalachain farmer’s wife….graveyard voice…[and] skeletally-picked guitar…”
Uncut (9/03, p.92) – 3 stars out of 5 – “…Welch’s Grammy-nominated debut heralded the dawn of a rare talent…”
Uncut (11/01, p.124) – 4 stars out of 5 – “…Brilliant…”
Alternative Press (6/96, p.92) – 3 (out of 5) – “…Welch has a thin, clear voice with a soft, melodic nature that gives her classically styled folk-country songs a timeless quality…”
Village Voice (2/25/97) – Ranked #23 in the Village Voice’s 1996 Pazz & Jop Critics’ Poll.
Uncut (magazine) – 4 stars out of 5 — “REVIVAL’s retro sheen made way for austere acoustic sorrow, never more affecting than on ‘One Morning’…”
Ryan Adams – Rock N Roll
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As the album’s title indicates, this is Ryan Adams’ full-on rock outing. Here the former Whiskeytown leader/enfant terrible eschews all twang in favor of indulging his alt-rock id, and the result is a whirlwind tour through rock & roll history as filtered through his trademark swagger. Adams wears his influences brazenly, like patches sewn on his jean jacket, from the T-Rex stomp of “Shallow” to the snotty Nirvana/Smashing Pumpkins hybrid of “Note to Self: Don’t Die” to a number of Replacements-influenced tracks, including “This Is It” and “Do Miss America.” Ever the contrarian, Adams leaves the only truly subdued song on ROCK N ROLL for the title track, a move which nods towards the melancholy pop of his simultaneous release, LOVE IS HELL PART 1.
Tracklisting
1. This Is It
2. Shallow
3. 1974
4. Wish You Were Here
5. So Alive
6. Luminol
7. Only You Know and I Know
8. She’s Lost Total Control
9. Note to Self: Don’t Die
10. Rock N Roll
11. Anybody Wanna Take Me Home
12. Do Miss America
13. Boys
14. The Drugs Not Working
15. Hypnotixed (Bonus Track)
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (12/25/03, p.104) – Included in Rolling Stone’s “50 Best Albums of 2003″
Rolling Stone (11/13/03, p.90) – 4 stars out of 5 – “…The best bullets here are like excerpts from a fantasy mix tape of classic glam and garage rock…”
Spin (12/03, pp.124-6) – “…He swaps pedal-steel filigree for synthesizers, and everywhere the guitars are cranked, the sneakers set on stun…”
Entertainment Weekly (11/7/03, pp.69-70) – “…In keeping with the alt-rock aesthetic, there is a primitive urgency to many of these tracks…” – Rating: B
Q (01/01/04, p.75) – Ranked #46 in Q’s “The 50 Best Albums of 2003″
Q (12/03, p.121) – 3 stars out of 5 – “…Adams is on fine, growly form on the uptempo ‘This Is It’…”
Magnet (2/04, p.90) – “[U]tterly fascinating…”
CMJ (11/10/03, p.6) – “…This time, the alt-country ballads are nowhere to be seen, with Adams fully indulging his inner rock-star desires….with meaty hooks and distorted guitars that lurch from chord to chord, Adams growls out break-up and make-up anthems one right after the other…”
Mojo (Publisher) (11/03, p.120) – 4 stars out of 5 – “…Ostensibly straightahead, uncontentious music….Like his debut, it feels like Adams has unleashed himself, without fear…”
Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker
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Whiskeytown were one the mid-’90s wave of bands who approached American roots music–country, folk, singer/songwriter, and combinations thereof–from an alternative rock standpoint. They were apt to be as influenced by Nick Drake and Superchunk as by Johnny Cash and Neil Young. Ryan Adams performs vocal duties for Whiskeytown, and HEARTBREAKER is his first solo album. It’s primarily a singer/songwriter affair, with lots of acoustic guitars, gentle drums, subtle keyboards, and back-porch harmony vocals, but there’s also a lot of variety and kick. “To Be Young” tears out of the gate like a rollicking out-take from Dylan’s HIGHWAY 61 sessions, and the gentle, shimmering, baroque-tinged “Amy” recalls both the Left Banke, and the Beatles in their “Eleanor Rigby” mode. Many tunes–like “To Be the One”–have a bare-bones, dusty, story-telling quality that recalls Dylan, John Prine, Woody Guthrie, and Steve Earle (who Adams slightly resembles vocally) without ever sounding like Adams is aping them. As a bonus, Emmylou Harris and Gillian Welch supply heavenly harmonies.
Tracklisting
1. Argument with David Rawlings Concerning Morrissey
2. To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)
3. My Winding Wheel
4. Amy
5. Oh My Sweet Carolina
6. Bartering Lines
7. Call Me On Your Way Back Home
8. Damn, Sam (I Love a Woman That Rains)
9. Come Pick Me Up
10. To Be the One
11. Why Do They Leave?
12. Shakedown On 9th Street
13. Don’t Ask for the Water
14. In My Time of Need
15. Sweet Lil Gal
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (9/14/00, p.177) – 3 stars out of 5 – “…[His] sources run deep…he has the raspy, quavering voice and innate tunefulness to be worthy of [his sources]…which run from Paul Westerberg to Hank Williams….[He has] considerable talent and charm…”
Entertainment Weekly (9/8/00, p.89) – “…A brash, alt-country balladeer with a rock instinct….cementing [his] rep as a latter-day Gram Parsons.” – Rating: B+
Q (1/01, p.104) – 4 out of 5 stars – “…An album of aching ballads topped and tailed by some irresistible barroom remorse….Gram Parsons would have been proud.”
Uncut (p.92) – “[A] brilliant mix of romantic burn-out, reckless bravado, charred emotions, tender swagger and fractured beauty…”
Alternative Press (5/01, p.104) – Included in AP’s “10 Essential Breakup Albums” – “…The torment is all Adams’ – we can be certain of that…”
CMJ (1/08/01, p.9) – Included in CMJ’s “Best of the Year” for 2000.
CMJ (9/4/00, p.3) – “…A brand-new set of foot-stomping anthems and rum-soaked ballads….[He] is the newest icon of heartfelt country rock.”
Mojo (Publisher) (p.61) – Ranked #52 in Mojo’s “100 Modern Classics” — “Adams conjures a kitbag of Dylanesque blues, tear-in-your-beer country and aching Greenwich Village-style folk.”
Mojo (Publisher) (11/00, p.98) – “…Haunted and hurting, this is an album about love….though quiet and spare…it’s impassioned, lyrically and melodically…”
NME (Magazine) (12/30/00, p.79) – Ranked #45 in NME’s “Top 50 Albums Of The Year”.
NME (Magazine) (11/25/00, p.34) – 8 stars out of 10 – “…Adams takes sighing acoustic guitars and melancholic country melodies and strips them bare until all that remains are the stinging truths of the heart, and his own ruminations….a fine successor to Jeff Buckley’s throne as visionary rock troubador.”
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals – Cardinology
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CARDINOLOGY is the 10th full-length release in eight years by the prolific Ryan Adams and the fourth he’s recorded with his band, the Cardinals. After the mercurial genre experiments of his earlier albums, it finds Adams assimilating those various styles into one comprehensive aesthetic. Accordingly, CARDINOLOGY flits between many of the sounds he’s devoted entire albums to in the past. From Neil Young-indebted balladry (”Stop”) to Americana (”Born Into a Light”), hard-driving rock & roll (”Magick”), and ’80s-obsessed Britrock (”Cobwebs”), Adams is no less eclectic than usual here, but with the help of the Cardinals he somehow manages to make all these disparate strands sound like part of the same sonic cloth.
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1. Born Into a Light
2. Go Easy
3. Fix It
4. Magick
5. Cobwebs
6. Siciliana: O Lola, C’hai di Latti
7. Crossed Out Name
8. Natural Ghost
9. Sink Ships
10. Evergreen
11. Like Yesterday
12. Stop
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (p.124) – 4 stars out of 5 — “CARDINOLOGY is a classic-rock record to the bone, nodding to influences that Adams has conjured before but never so well: the country rock of the Grateful Dead and Gram Parsons, the arena anthems of U2.”
Rolling Stone (p.90) – Ranked #14 in Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Albums Of 2008 — “Adams’ best LP in years…”
Spin (p.106) – 3.5 stars out of 5 — “Like TIGER, CARDINOLOGY is long on midtempo country-rock shuffles that sound comfortable with their own familiarity…”
Entertainment Weekly (p.62) – “He’s allowed his songwriting to settle into a comfortable pattern as he’s matured, but that hasn’t made it any less vital.” — Grade: A-
Alternative Press (p.129) – 4 stars out of 5 — “‘Go Easy’ is soft and reassuring, getting your heart worked up with warm fuzzies before it transitions into the deep, sultry blues of ‘Fix It.’”
Mojo (Publisher) (p.110) – 4 stars out of 5 — “From the word go, CARDINOLOGY establishes a mood of quiet expectations….This is watercolour…with gentle shadows, dappled light, no large strokes, just restrained and organic….[A] moving album.”
Blender (Magazine) (p.76) – 3.5 stars out of 5 — “[T]his is a group effort, and affirmation of Cardinal principles. For the most part, that means less acoustic lilt and more bruising force.”
Record Collector (magazine) (p.84) – 3 stars out of 5 — “‘Crossed Out Name,’ ‘Sink Ships,’ and ‘Evergreen’ have the right mix of emotion and atmosphere…”
Bob Dylan – Nashville Skyline
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NASHVILLE from the album’s title. However, as usual, he proved ahead of the game; his embrace of country ushered in Gram Parsons, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and scores of subsequent artists under the Americana banner. Prescient too was his nod to Johnny Cash, with whom he duets on the gorgeous “Girl From The North Country.” Buoyed by an altered, near-crooning vocal style, most of the tracks are pleasant and enduring; the chart hit “Lay Lady Lay” remains one of Dylan’s most engaging songs.
Tracklisting
1. Girl from the North Country
2. Nashville Skyline Rag
3. To Be Alone with You
4. I Threw It All Away
5. Peggy Day
6. Lay Lady Lay
7. One More Night
8. Tell Me That It Isn’t True
9. Country Pie
10. Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (5/31/69, p.36) – “…continues Dylan’s rediscovered romance with rural music….a jewel of construction….NASHVILLE SKYLINE achieves the artistically impossible: a deep, human, and interesting statement about being happy…”
Neil Young – Tonight’s the Night
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TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT is dedicated to Young’s guitarist Danny Whitten and roadie Bruce Berry, who died shortly before this recording was made, and the title cut details that very subject, but the darker moments here are leavened by a generous share of self-parodic humor and general Neil Young loopiness. Sad, tender ballads like “Borrowed Tune,” (itself not without humor) rub shoulders with hearty rockers like “Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown.” Several tunes find Young and Crazy Horse exploring hard-edged country-rock with their collective tongue stuck firmly in the cheek, as on “Roll Another Number.” Young’s voice reels sadistically and purposefully out of tune, cutting through the arrangements like strategically placed barbed-wire (and providing a template for the work of Will Oldham/Palace two decades later). Sardonic, taunting, mercilessly self-deprecating, often downright funny, TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT is no gloomfest, but a multi-faceted, full-bodied classic.
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1. Tonight’s the Night
2. Speakin’ Out
3. World On a String
4. Borrowed Tune
5. Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown
6. Mellow My Mind
7. Roll Another Number (For the Road)
8. Albuquerque
9. New Mama
10. Lookout Joe
11. Tired Eyes
12. Tonight’s the Night, Pt. 2
Professional Reviews
Q (4/02, p.141) – “…This is as gripping and original an album as Young has ever made.”
The Wire (p.44) – “[T]he album most often hailed as Young’s messed-up masterpiece….’Tired Eyes’ addresses the death of a junkie with merciless candour…”
Mojo (Publisher) (11/01, p.151) – “…One of the most bleakly beautiful rock albums ever made…”
NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) – Ranked #94 in NME’s list of the “Greatest Albums Of All Time.”
NME (Magazine) (9/18/93, p.19) – Ranked #43 in NME’s list of the “Greatest Albums Of The ’70s.”
NME (Magazine) (8/12/00, p.28) – Ranked #14 in The NME “Top 30 Heartbreak Albums” – “…[His] world was devastated in late-’72 by the overdose of Crazy horse guitarist Danny Whitten and roadie Bruce Berry….his desperate attempt to come to terms with those deaths…”
Neil Young – Neil Young
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Young’s first solo record is quite a bit different from the sound he would later develop–not that anyone could ever know what to expect from this mercurial visionary. This album, though, is a bit artier and less spontaneous-sounding than most of Young’s catalog. That’s not to say that he hadn’t already developed a gift for writing unique, captivating material. He’d already shown that ability with Buffalo Springfield, and NEIL YOUNG is full of great, idiosyncratic tunes. The most well-known cut here is the most traditional rock-sounding tune, “The Loner,” but even here Young sings of disaffection and isolation, over an arrangement that shifts between distorted guitar and elegant string section. “The Old Laughing Lady” is probably the most Springfieldish song here, and along with the country flavor of some of the other tunes, provides a link to Young’s past. The piece de resistance is the closing acoustic epic, “The Last Trip To Tulsa,” a surreal, Dylanesque number that showed Young already blazing his own trail in the world of rock poets.
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1. Emperor of Wyoming
2. Loner
3. If I Could Have Her Tonight
4. I’ve Been Waiting for You
5. Old Laughing Lady
6. String Quartet from Whiskey Boot Hill
7. Here We Are in the Years
8. What Did You Do to My Life
9. I’ve Loved Her So Long
10. Last Trip to Tulsa
Professional Reviews
Q (4/02, p.142) – “…It’s definitely the sound of an artist struggling to find his way…”
