Murdering Oscar (2009) Album Review
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PopMatters
If you've never heard the Truckers before, start elsewhere; everyone else: enjoy.
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Paste Magazine
With redneck-underground country, slightly detuned minor-key Southern rock, grungy Crazy Horse-indebted lopers and Stonesy rockers, there's a little of everything Hood's done so far, plus a few dashes of discovery.
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Pitchfork
With every note, with every song, Hood sounds like he increasingly, if modestly, recognizes he's part of that great songwriting continuum, working hard to live up to his end of the obligation, as long as it takes.
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Spin
Although most of the songs on Patterson Hood's second solo album predate the existence of Drive-By Truckers, they'd easily fit on any of his band's records -- same low-life characters.
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