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- Date Released: September 23, 2008
- Genre: Country/Folk
- Style: Americana
- Label: Nettwerk Records
Old Crow still sound like themselves. Thankfully!
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After two discs produced by Gillian Welch mainstay David Rawlings, Nashville's savviest old-time band enlists big name Don Was behind the boards — and damn if they still don't sound exactly like themselves. And that's a good thing. Critter Fuqua's top-flight picking anchors the band's musicianship, while multi-instrumentalist and singer Ketch Secor provides the flash upfront. Sure, their take on Blind Alfred Reed's "Lift Him Up" is heartfelt enough to make you wish they'd taken on a few more covers here, especially since their lyrics can get a little soppy ("The Greatest Hustler of All") or lazy ("That Evening Sun"). But the original material kicks off with a pair of very different, very smart road songs — the bootlegger's jaunt "Alabama High Test" and the roadside reverie of "Highway Halo" — and they do right by their Nashville liberal roots as well. If the MLK eulogy "Motel in Memphis" ("You would swear it was more than a man who died") plays it a mite safe politically, they root themselves firmly in the present with the grim "Methamphetamine," which proclaims, "There's a war out there and it's fought by poor white men" that limits a man's choices to "either the mine or the Kentucky National Guard."
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Alabama High-Test |
2:27 |  |
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Highway Halo |
3:44 | |
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The Greatest Hustler Of All |
7:06 | |
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Methamphetamine |
5:29 | |
| 05. | |
Next Go `Round |
3:40 | |
| 06. | |
Humdinger |
2:31 | |
| 07. | |
Motel In Memphis |
4:27 | |
| 08. | |
That Evening Sun |
3:45 | |
| 09. | |
Mary’s Kitchen |
2:45 | |
| 10. | |
Crazy Eyes |
4:19 | |
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Tennessee Pusher |
5:32 | |
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Lift Him Up |
3:59 | |
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Caroline |
3:33 | |
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