7.6
Avg Score
2
Opinions
#15,578
All Time
1
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“Justin Townes Earle has never been one for fetishized country songs about trucks and the gal who did ‘im wrong. But even by his own rubric, The Saint of Lost Causes is his darkest, moodiest album yet, stretching beyond the implied limits of his chosen genre and deeper into the roots of Americana. Opening with a smoky blues crawl, the title track has a slow-swinging Asylum-era Tom Waits feel to th”
“The singer-songwriter takes on environmental crisis and family tensions as he blends country blues and gently melodic folk balladry”
