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MagnetApr 15, 2015A full band plays behind Joyner's acoustic guitar and quiet vocals, but they employ the same restraint that marks his singing, making very quiet note resonate with low-key, understated emotion. [No. 119, p.57]
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Apr 2, 2015Another beautiful and deeply touching Simon Joyner record.
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Apr 2, 2015Grass, Branch & Bone is a low-key triumph from an artist who had made a career out of demonstrating that in music, simplicity is often the approach that tells us the most.
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Apr 2, 2015In spite of all of this [still packed with his slow tempos, slurred sadness, and dour imagery], Grass, Branch and Bone stands as one of the easiest to inhabit of all of Joyner’s albums. Happily, it’s also as rewarding to explore as anything he’s done.
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Apr 2, 2015Joyner's poem-songs are worth lingering over. As it turns out, his idiosyncratic sandpaper tenor and low spacious guitar style are the perfect instruments through which to deliver them.
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Under The RadarApr 17, 2015This weathered, word-drunk troubadour is still in full possession of a journalist's eye and poet's ear. [Apr - May 2015, p.89]