You Could've Swore You Heard it Before

Review Score: (8/10)
With a million musicians going forward, hearing one go backward is quite refreshing. With swinging and fiddling on "Dreamer in My Dreams" or aching pedal steel on "The Lonely 1", Tweedy and Company play out their ambition without sounding ambitious - in a good way. In the same vein as Lucinda Williams, they manage to sound drunk and yet in full posession of their faculties and heart. Ok, some of this album is filler. But those disenchanted with straight-up rock and roll these days may get religion again listening to this album.

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