Artist: Hayes Carll
Album: Lovers And Leavers
Bitrate: 229kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Thirty Tigers
Genre: Country
Size: 66.30 megs
PlayTime: 0h 38min 11sec total
Rip Date: 2016-04-09
Store Date: 2016-04-08

Track List:
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01. Drive                            3:19
02. Sake Of The Song                 4:44
03. Good While It Lasted             3:14
04. You Leave Alone                  4:01
05. My Friends                       3:52
06. The Love That We Need            4:08
07. Love Don't Let Me Down           3:16
08. The Magic Kid                    4:08
09. Love Is So Easy                  3:04
10. Jealous Moon                     4:25

Release Notes:
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Songwriter Hayes Carll has always placed his craft first. His best work has been
defined by its rich irony, a keen eye for quirky images, and quick, catchy
melodies that were equally at home in a honky tonk, in a car, and on a festival
stage. Lovers and Leavers, his Joe Henry-produced fifth album, may seem -- at
least on first listen -- to be a bit of a departure. It's sparser and airier,
and more directly confessional. Carll's story-songs have more often than not
reflected the life of a likable wandering rogue, a gypsy songman whose authority
problem and self-deprecating attitude made quick friends of listeners. But a
poet was always there too, just waiting to emerge. These songs reflect a wisdom
gained from hard living, embracing gratitude, loss, and love. There are no
electric guitars on Lovers and Leavers; Henry placed Carll's acoustic guitar
front and center framed by David Pilch's basses, Jay Bellerose's drums and
percussion, and Tyler Chester's keyboards (no synths). Eric Heywood lends the
occasional pedal steel, too. In "Sake of the Song," a swirling Wurlitzer, dreamy
steel, and strummed six-string help Carll paint word portraits of those who
share his vocation, and with a hummable melody he also reveals the traps that
waylay them. "You Leave Alone" is a country waltz. The acoustic guitar is
accompanied only by upright bass and fingersnaps. It would have been perfect for
the pre-outlaw Waylon Jennings. The bittersweet "Good While It Lasted" is about
leaving behind bad habits and ultimately a marriage. But it discloses a way of
accepting any moment for what it brings rather than wasting its potential
longing for what has been lost. Carll tackles the other side, too; the doubt and
fear these realizations bring in "Love Don't Let Me Down" find him weighing
busted dreams against future hopes. "The Love That We Need" features a gospel
piano, hand percussion, and acoustic guitar. They frame a narrative about stasis
in romantic relationships and commitments; it renders them impossible. In the
refrain he posits the revelation "We got the life that we wanted/But not the
love that we need." In spite of pain received and given, his delivery reveals an
empathic tenderness that refuses to blame. "The Magic Kid," written about his
son, is the set's watermark. Carll directly relates the wonder of a
nine-year-old and the blinding truth imparted by a pure heart: "You shine your
light for everyone to see/The only one I've known who's truly free...." Even in
the set's lighter moments, such as the rag shuffle "Love Is So Easy," his poetry
is searing in its simplicity, unobstructed and unaffected. Carll presents these
songs with open hands; he made Lovers and Leavers to prove something to himself.
With the canny assistance of Henry's sensitive production, the songwriter's
vulnerability rises into open view and elevates his craft along with it. In
Carll's world -- and hopefully ours -- love wins no matter what.



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Artist: Hayes Carll
Album: Lovers And Leavers
Bitrate: 229kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Thirty Tigers
Genre: Country
Size: 66.30 megs
PlayTime: 0h 38min 11sec total
Rip Date: 2016-04-09
Store Date: 2016-04-08

Track List:
--------
01. Drive                            3:19
02. Sake Of The Song                 4:44
03. Good While It Lasted             3:14
04. You Leave Alone                  4:01
05. My Friends                       3:52
06. The Love That We Need            4:08
07. Love Don't Let Me Down           3:16
08. The Magic Kid                    4:08
09. Love Is So Easy                  3:04
10. Jealous Moon                     4:25

Release Notes:
--------
Songwriter Hayes Carll has always placed his craft first. His best work has been
defined by its rich irony, a keen eye for quirky images, and quick, catchy
melodies that were equally at home in a honky tonk, in a car, and on a festival
stage. Lovers and Leavers, his Joe Henry-produced fifth album, may seem -- at
least on first listen -- to be a bit of a departure. It's sparser and airier,
and more directly confessional. Carll's story-songs have more often than not
reflected the life of a likable wandering rogue, a gypsy songman whose authority
problem and self-deprecating attitude made quick friends of listeners. But a
poet was always there too, just waiting to emerge. These songs reflect a wisdom
gained from hard living, embracing gratitude, loss, and love. There are no
electric guitars on Lovers and Leavers; Henry placed Carll's acoustic guitar
front and center framed by David Pilch's basses, Jay Bellerose's drums and
percussion, and Tyler Chester's keyboards (no synths). Eric Heywood lends the
occasional pedal steel, too. In "Sake of the Song," a swirling Wurlitzer, dreamy
steel, and strummed six-string help Carll paint word portraits of those who
share his vocation, and with a hummable melody he also reveals the traps that
waylay them. "You Leave Alone" is a country waltz. The acoustic guitar is
accompanied only by upright bass and fingersnaps. It would have been perfect for
the pre-outlaw Waylon Jennings. The bittersweet "Good While It Lasted" is about
leaving behind bad habits and ultimately a marriage. But it discloses a way of
accepting any moment for what it brings rather than wasting its potential
longing for what has been lost. Carll tackles the other side, too; the doubt and
fear these realizations bring in "Love Don't Let Me Down" find him weighing
busted dreams against future hopes. "The Love That We Need" features a gospel
piano, hand percussion, and acoustic guitar. They frame a narrative about stasis
in romantic relationships and commitments; it renders them impossible. In the
refrain he posits the revelation "We got the life that we wanted/But not the
love that we need." In spite of pain received and given, his delivery reveals an
empathic tenderness that refuses to blame. "The Magic Kid," written about his
son, is the set's watermark. Carll directly relates the wonder of a
nine-year-old and the blinding truth imparted by a pure heart: "You shine your
light for everyone to see/The only one I've known who's truly free...." Even in
the set's lighter moments, such as the rag shuffle "Love Is So Easy," his poetry
is searing in its simplicity, unobstructed and unaffected. Carll presents these
songs with open hands; he made Lovers and Leavers to prove something to himself.
With the canny assistance of Henry's sensitive production, the songwriter's
vulnerability rises into open view and elevates his craft along with it. In
Carll's world -- and hopefully ours -- love wins no matter what.



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