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Whistle Stopper - The Good Life
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List Price: $14.98
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Manufacturer: Bloodshot Records
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0744302015125
Label: Bloodshot Records
Manufacturer: Bloodshot Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Bloodshot Records
Release Date: 2008-03-25
Studio: Bloodshot Records
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Summary: Great Country Album
Comment: I saw Justin in concert the other night, and he put on an impressive show. His voice sounds wise beyond its years, and he has an amazing stage presence. Above all, the music on this album is wonderful. I'm not even that big of a country fan, but this music is great. In a day when most of the commercially successful country music is diluted with elements of pop, it is very refreshing to have an artist bring it all back home. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Steve Earle's genes create greatness!
Comment: Wow! I love this album, and when the last song ends I just start it back around. Steve Earle raised this boy up right!
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Summary: Like father, like son
Comment: Justin Townes Earle's music has a lot of the same qualities as his father's (Steve Earle). This is a really good track from a really good album. Highly recommended for any fan of singer-songwriter/alternative country/Americana music.
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Summary: Unexpected
Comment: I really had no idea what to expect from this album. I knew the lineage but hadn't heard anything about it when I put on the headphones at my local shop's listening station. It sounded really great from the start and the amount of "country" it contained blew me away. I guess I thought there would be some amount of over-production or pretention given who His parent(s) and in-laws are. If there is any, I can't find it. This album is creative and really goes back to what I would call "old-school" country. Ya, ya think Hank Williams Sr. I can't come up with a better example but I never claimed to be at all creative. Lucky for us Justin Townes Earle is and this album hasn't lost it's shine even after I listened to it through a number of times. "The Good Life" stands alone as a great album by a creative artist regardless of how he may be compared to his father. That being said, He does a great job living up to his namesake(s)!
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Summary: There's Beautiful and Then There's the Beauty That Echoes Long Afterward
Comment: That the reviewers of this album (so far) have only one complaint - that it's too short - should give you an idea of the beauty of this album, its songs and its poetic lyrics. You will find yourself listening to these songs in your mind long after the album is over.
If you are fan of Townes van Zandt or Guy Clark, this album is a must have. The new master songwriter has arrived - his name is Justin Townes Earle.
P.S. If you are a fan of Justin Timberlake (or any other sugar pop singer), I'm not sure this is for you....
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Editorial Reviews:
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Like his musical pedigree, the debut release by Justin Townes Earle is a mixed blessing. In Texas songwriting circles, having Steve Earle as a father--who gave him his middle name in commemoration of his creative hero Townes Van Zandt--is the sort of burden that a basketball-playing son of Michael Jordan might carry. Half of these cuts that sound like Lone Star roadhouse ready-mades, dimly remembered from some 1960s jukebox (though all Earle originals.) During this stretch of The Good Life, neither his voice nor his songwriting is strong enough to raise the results above the generic. Yet the folkier intimacy he displays on "Who Am I to Say" and "Turn Out the Lights" shows a singer-songwriter who can really get under the listener's skin when he isn't trying to sing over a band. Saving the best for last, he sounds a little like his dad on "Far Away In Another Town," but he also sounds like an artist coming into his own. --Don McLeese
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