★★★★★
Four years have passed since Charlie Robison's post-divorce album
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2013-11-27
★★★★★
Except for the occasional live gig, Charlie Robison has been missing in action since his last disc, 2009's
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2013-09-26
★★★★★
Texas-based singer-songwriter Charlie Robison released an album earlier this summer - his first one since his divorce from Dixie Chicks member Emily Robison last fall. If you're expecting cry-in-your-beer tearjerkers, move along. The material on Robison's 10-song disc Beautiful Day runs the gamut from heartache and reflection to feelings of renewal and optimism. Overall, the album is surprisingly an upbeat one considering Robison's recent experiences...
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2010-12-07
★★★★★
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2009-09-19
★★★★★
By the time Charlie Robison gets his well-deserved platinum single, he'll have accrued a back catalog full of timeless, should've-been hits like these. If Beautiful Day had come out in the mid-1970s, the Bandera, Texas, native would be hailed as an influence on Lynyrd Skynyrd with the "Tuesday's Gone" sway of his "Reconsider." Instead, this is Robison's first album in five years, a period in which his life turned into a country song...
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2009-07-21
★★★★★
I liked the title tune better when I thought he was saying "don't let the fascists get you down" rather than "bastards," but it amounts to the same thing. Long a champion of country music that eschews both purity and virtue, here Robison writes like his life depends on it, which it does--the virtue lobby has all fun in its sights, his music included. On the one about eating his wife's cooking he finds a new shade of meaning for the word "brisket...
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2009-07-10
★★★★★
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2009-07-10
★★★★★
Down Austin way, a few hard-core fans of Charlie Robison are already grumbling that the devil-may-care Texas singer-songwriter has lost some of his edge in his transfer from Sony's Lucky Dog imprint to the big leagues of Columbia. But if Charlie Robison is the sound of a sell-out, then the guy got away with a hell of a deal...
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2009-06-08
★★★★★
like an up-and-coming Steve Earle, without explicit leftism or explicit substance abuse ("The Wedding Song," "Desperate Times")
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2009-06-06