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Close Ties

Rodney Crowell

Close Ties

Seventeenth studio album from the 66 year old country singer-songwriter

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7.9

Label
New West Records
UK Release date
31/03/2017
US Release date
31/03/2017
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  1. 9.0 |   Slant Magazine

    The album is a reckoning with his own prickly memory, and it's a bounty of weathered emotion and hard-won wisdom
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  2. 9.0 |   Uncut

    Age seems to have deepened his poetic faculties, these rootsy narratives scarred by experience, but all the richer for it. Crowell's best since The Houston Kid. Print edition only

  3. 8.7 |   Paste Magazine

    For a song cycle that turns around death and mortality, Rodney Crowell’s Close Ties is a decidedly jubilant affair
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  4. 8.0 |   All Music

    This album shows he's a long, long way from used up
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  5. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    After more than 50 years as a recording artist, he’s still able to create evocative songs that linger in one’s head long after the disc has finished playing
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  6. 8.0 |   The Observer

    Upbeat, rueful, uncompromising
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  7. 7.5 |   Spectrum Culture

    One of Americana’s most tenacious and clear-eyed writers
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  8. 7.0 |   American Songwriter

    A poignant and emotionally affecting portrait of one of American music’s most captivating, talented and honest artists
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