Artist: Eric Church
Album: Mr. Misunderstood
Bitrate: 237kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: EMI Nashville
Genre: Country
Size: 69.32 megs
PlayTime: 0h 38min 39sec total
Rip Date: 2015-11-15
Store Date: 2015-11-10
Track List:
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01. Mr. Misunderstood 5:19
02. Mistress Named Music 5:22
03. Chattanooga Lucy 3:23
04. Mixed Drinks About Feelings 2:59
05. Knives Of New Orleans 4:02
06. Round Here Buzz 3:34
07. Kill A Word 3:19
08. Holdin' My Own 3:56
09. Record Year 2:59
10. Three Year Old 3:46
Release Notes:
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Eric Church has always been excellent at balancing whiskey-charged toughness
with open-hearted musical subtlety: His first great hit was 2011's
"Springsteen," a masterwork of literary detail and melodic texture, and 2014's
The Outsiders nailed a 21st-century country-rock sweet spot. So it's no big
shock to hear him big-upping Wilco's Jeff Tweedy (and even nicking one of his
tunes) on this album, where he cleverly juggles genres and often leans on his
somber singer-songwriter side. Recorded in about a month and surprise-released
to fans, it's full of casual stunners: "Mixed Drinks About Feelings" is a
closing-time piano duet with Susan Tedeschi; "Chattanooga Lucy" sees Church
working a soul falsetto over a stomping dance groove; and the backing track for
"Kill A Word" is like a twang-born kissing cousin of early-Eighties Fleetwood
Mac.
Church's well-observed writing and warm, generous wit ground the album,
particularly on two examples of the small-town vignettes he does so well: The
title track, which builds from acoustic reverie to barnburner as he empathizes
with a misfit who has long-shot rock & roll dreams û tipping its hat to Wilco's
1996 opus Being There along the way û and the prettily elegiac "Round Here
Buzz," which enters the term "lit up like that one stoplight" into the canon of
go-nowhere drunk-dude one-liners. The most moving moment, "Record Year," is
Church at his ecumenical best. It's a sweet, sad ode to post-breakup boozing
next to a turntable that has Waylon, Willie and Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key
of Life in its stack of vinyl Band-Aids. Tweedy should be happy to be included
in such fine company.