Nashville – Nashville Spectacle – Nashville Cream – D.U.I
Posted by arielstory on December 15, 2008
Sophomore Lounge
I was told before listening to Young Lungs that Murfreesboro’s Ribbonpigeon are sort of a Glossary Lite, and while their graceful meshing of guitars, strings and steel certainly falls in the same vein, the album is less of a re-imagining of traditional country and more of a straight-up homage to rock-based country and bluegrass. It’s the kind of reverential Southern offering complete with Nashville twang and fiddle that actually aren’t obnoxious whatsoever. It steps outside the Southern box here and there; there’s definitely more than a slight hint of Springsteen influence in the haggard, world-weary vocals and of Tom Petty in the Americana (damn that confounded word) arrangements. Young Lungs is by no means a groundbreaking album. It doesn’t interpret its influences in a way that will blow your mind, but if you’re a Hank or Patsy or Johnny fan, it just might reinstate your faith that a handful of modern bands are capable of playing a type of country that isn’t insultingly banal.
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