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10.0
118700
10.0 |
The Arts Desk
Ghosts of West Virginia is Americana at its finest, and the Dukes – husband-and-wife team Chris Masterson and Whitmore, Jackson, Hill, and Pemberton – are tight and cohesive
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9.0
118758
9.0 |
All Music
With Ghosts of West Virginia, he's created some of the most eloquent music he's written in two decades
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8.0
118740
8.0 |
Mojo
Powerful stuff. Print edition only
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8.0
118741
8.0 |
Uncut
There are moments where Earle sounds like he's having more fun than any time since The Mountain
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8.0
118742
8.0 |
PopMatters
On Ghosts of West Virginia, Steve Earle chronicles the lives, hopes, dreams, and regrets of families who've lived for generations in coal country with a masterful song cycle that's long on empathy and short on judgment
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8.0
118701
8.0 |
Exclaim
Instead of digging up coal like the miners grippingly depicted in these new songs, the Hardcore Troubadour and the Dukes unearth anthemic gems for America's marginalized
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8.0
118724
8.0 |
American Songwriter
GOWV displays once again that Steve Earle is one of America’s most captivating, unvarnished, provocative and talented singer/songwriters
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7.0
118738
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
This is the alt-country hero’s most thematically focused work to date
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7.0
118806
7.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Earle crosses a political divide, telling red-state stories in an effort to further understanding and conversation
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6.0
118779
6.0 |
The Observer
Earle commemorates a fatal explosion 10 years ago – and reaches out to the blue-collar communities affected
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