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mordwyr
This is his best album. This is him at his rawest and most real, when he was still struggling to make it, before the recognition, before the Grammy nomination for best album. Though he's clearly still striving on Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, you get the sense that he's got breathing room. Not so on High Top Mountain. Sturgill's desperate, but he's keeping a lid on it, keeping his cool, and poking fun at himself to keep his sanity. He's starts us off with an aphorism, "life ain't fair and the world is mean". His voice, his country cool, his outlaw style carry it all from here on out. "You Can Have the Crown" and "Some Days" are the standouts for most listeners, and rightly so. These songs distill Sturgill's predicament: he's got a wife who wants him to get a job, but he knows he's got the chops to make it in country music. And he likes to smoke weed. But for me, the best song on this album is "Old King Coal". It's got everything a country song could ask for and more.
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