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Title: Some good playing, but...
Review: This CD has some worthwhile elements to it, but in the end it doesn't add up to much. There is some fine playing from the band and from the guest musicians (notably Steve Hunter), but the songwriting and the vocals have an odd air of insincerity or shallowness to them that is death in this kind of music. Country (or alt. country) music has to be believable to be taken seriously, and this just isn't believable.
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