“For the most part-- damn near the *whole* part-- Damien Jurado went for the straightforward earnest lo-fi acoustic ballad "thing". Far from the rocking follow-up to his chair-breaking 2002 release, *Where Shall You Take Me* is as distant as Jurado can travel without ending up in the same place (the token rocker, \x93Texas to Ohio\x94, is like Alejandro Escovedo's most annoying moment, but not quit”
