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Jamey Johnson
That Lonesome Song

Rolling Stone (4-Star Review):

“There’s a new Man in Black in Nashville. Jamey Johnson’s monochrome color scheme begins with his denim-and-leather wardrobe and extends to his songs — tales of drug abuse and marital ruin sketched in shades of black and blacker. “I had a job and a piece of land/My sweet wife was my best friend/But I traded that for cocaine and a whore,” he croaks in “High Cost of Living.” Johnson, a 32-year-old former Marine from Alabama, keeps his music rugged and gothic — stark honky-tonk ballads awash in weeping pedal steel — and makes no secret of his love for George Jones, Waylon Jennings and other grandees.

Country has no shortage of wanna-be outlaw neotraditionalists, but Johnson’s songs are crisper and more tuneful than most. And much grimmer. In the title track, Johnson is a broken man who wakes up in his Chevy with “whiskey eyes and ashtray breath.” In the menacingly bluesy “Mowin’ Down the Roses,” he goes through the house collecting his ex’s things and torches them “on a burn pile in the back.” Even in the album’s jauntiest song, “Women,” Johnson’s jokes have an undertone of rueful self-loathing. “Women keep our heads spinning,” he sings. “I just can’t ever seem to make one stay.”

Some Thoughts From Me:

I am always in search for an album that can grab me, hold me and keep me entranced from the first lick to the last… “That Lonesome Song” is just that kind of album!
It must be said that the star of the album (besides Jamey’s songwriting skills) is the STEEL GUITAR. The crying tones fade in and out throughout the entire album and morph it into a journey through the dark part of a man’s soul.
This is one of the best country albums of all-time (I don’t say that lightly)!
You MUST OWN THIS!