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http://teamhellions.com/2012/02/29/reco ... yim-yames/

This album is beautiful, haunting, tragic, and human to the deepest level. It shifts styles from psychedelic, singer/songwriter, blues, and great rock. Woody Guthrie has never been documented and given tribute quite as well as this, and he never will again.

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turpentim wrote:
dbengr69 wrote:...may be the most moving song ever recorded by jay....i can't stop playing it over and over.

...the whole album is grand, especially disc 2.

...that is all.
I'm in total agreement. A few weeks ago, I got chided for making the outlandish claim that 'Hoping Machine' may well be top 5 all-time of Jay's recordings. Thing is, I'm pretty sure if you ask me again in a decade I'll say the same thing. No question that it's his best vocal performance of all time (followed closely, I think, by "Wipe The Clock" and "Still Be Around").

Tim in Chapel Hill
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that and "san antone meat house" are my top two on the effort so far.

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dbengr69 wrote:...may be the most moving song ever recorded by jay....i can't stop playing it over and over.

...the whole album is grand, especially disc 2.

...that is all.
I'm in total agreement. A few weeks ago, I got chided for making the outlandish claim that 'Hoping Machine' may well be top 5 all-time of Jay's recordings. Thing is, I'm pretty sure if you ask me again in a decade I'll say the same thing. No question that it's his best vocal performance of all time (followed closely, I think, by "Wipe The Clock" and "Still Be Around").

Tim in Chapel Hill

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haters gonna hate, shuck.

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Great song on a great album.

Shame that I feel obligated to shelve it for not being as collaborative an effort as I anticipated it would/ should have been.

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...may be the most moving song ever recorded by jay....i can't stop playing it over and over.

...the whole album is grand, especially disc 2.

...that is all.

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