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Title: You Are Not Needed Now
Review: There are some great names singing great versions of great songs here, but when all is said and done I heartily recommend you get your fingers dirty with the real thing. Let LIVE AT THE OLD QUARTER or REARVIEW MIRROR be your introduction. This guy's like a cross between Hank Williams & early Leonard Cohen. Needless to say, he was not afraid of the dark.Like the cheesy cover of POET, this star studded tribute (whose heart is in the right place) is just a white-washing of the crooked, meandering fence Townes set up between Nashville and what has come to be known as "Alternative Country". In short, the originals kick the guts out of any the cover here.It certainly isn't a bad record, but who needs a new car when the old jalopy runs just fine.
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