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Tarpaper Sky

Rodney Crowell

Tarpaper Sky

Album number fourteen from Grammy award winning americana purveyor

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7.2

Label
New West Records
UK Release date
14/04/2014
US Release date
15/04/2014
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  1. 8.0 |   The Music

    This is an album without pretense, simply well crafted and expertly recorded country songs
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  2. 8.0 |   All Music

    This is Crowell at his best: focused, balanced, clever, at times profound. It's a welcome return to form
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  3. 8.0 |   The Independent

    Several songs evoke the joy of sustained devotion and the heartbreak of separation
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  4. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Throughout, Crowell’s versatile, impassioned voice is in fine fettle, a confident mix of goofiness and longing, anticipation and excitement, sadness and sentimentality, as if he’s just now entering a new prime. He might well be
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  5. 7.3 |   Paste Magazine

    Though these 11 songs aren’t always as sharply drawn as his best material, there’s plenty to love here
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  6. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    Crowell sounds as convincing in his subjects and engaged in the musicianship as he has in years and seems determined to keep adding worthy titles to his already Hall of Fame caliber catalog
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