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BY Dave Morris   December 03, 2008 21:12

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Live Country Music member Doug Paisley’s spare, gentle solo tunes draw from old-time country music’s rich tradition, but the real joy of listening to them is in the details: the mellow grain of Paisley’s voice; the restrained twang in his singing; the tastefully arranged and carefully played flourishes of piano and acoustic bass. A few of the songs on Paisley’s debut full-length are too reliable — which is to say, bland. But others are brilliant, such as “We Weather,” where Paisley and his female foil, One Hundred Dollars singer Simone Schmidt, play lovers poignantly struggling with the compromises of coupledom. It has all the subtlety and craft you could ask for, and it does what it’s supposed to. You don’t need more than that.

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