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Mark Erelli
Producer: Zack Hickman
Signature Sounds, 2008
1 CD
Catalogue #: SIG 2014
EAN: 0701237201429
UPC: 701237201429
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Personnel: Mark Erelli (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, resonator guitar, tenor guitar, harmonica).
Audio Mixer: Matt Beaudoin.
DEPARTED opens with a song called "Hope Dies Last," a song concerning the Iraq War and other pressures of modern life. As if the album title and monochromatic cover art weren't clue enough, it makes plain that DEPARTED is not the most cheerful alternative country album. Despite the enveloping darkness of Erelli's lyrics, however, there are occasional flashes of dry wit and an underlying feeling of hopefulness that keep the record from being merely depressing. Highlights include the wry "Five Beer Moon."
