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22 July 2017

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Rodney Crowell

Close Ties

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

ADM rating[?]: 7.9
Label: New West Records
UK Release date: 31/03/2017
US Release date: 31/03/2017

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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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9.0 94959
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
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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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8.0 | All Music

This album shows he's a long, long way from used up
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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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8.0 94957
8.0 | The Observer

Upbeat, rueful, uncompromising
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7.5 95474
7.5 | Spectrum Culture

One of Americana’s most tenacious and clear-eyed writers
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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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