Music Review

The Mountain (2009)

EW's GRADE
B+

Details Release Date: Feb 03, 2009; Lead Performance: Heartless Bastards; Genre: Rock

On his first all-bluegrass album, Earle's anarchic spirit roughens up the normally polished McCoury Band, but the result is far from amateurish — rather, The Mountain is the sound of consummate pros having a blast. As on almost all his albums, Earle wrote everything. Best line (from ''Carrie Brown,'' a murder ballad set in the town of Bristol, which straddles two states): ''I shot him in Virginia, and he died in Tennessee.'' B+

Originally posted Feb 19, 1999 Published in issue #472-473 Feb 19, 1999 Order article reprints
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