Rolling Stone (p.70) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he brooding alt-country weepers are not to be missed here, especially the lovely 'Cigarettes and Wine.'" Spin (p.80) - "[M]ultiple tales of warm, lonely barrooms and the warm, lonely relationships they breed uncover new truths..." Uncut - 4 stars out of 5 -- "'Soldiers Get Strange' is a brilliantly effective sketch of the derangement of a returning serviceman....The song, much like the rest of this terrific album, is an acknowledgment that while love is assuredly a battlefield, a battlefield in its way, can almost offer love." Billboard (p.33) - "The Americana is first-class, be it on crunchy, boozy romps with stinging solos or the slow-burning acoustic fare..." Paste (magazine) (p.66) - "For his new album, recorded in Muscle Shoals, Isbell has assembled a tight, nuanced group to breathe life into his songwriting -- he still has his sharp eye for narrative details..."

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