Product Details
- Artist: Hayes Carll
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- Binding: Audio CD
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- EAN: 0602517544635
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- Label: Lost Highway
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- Manufacturer: Lost Highway
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- Number of Discs: 1
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- Product Group: Music
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- Publisher: Lost Highway
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- Release Date: 2008-04-08
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- Studio: Lost Highway
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- Title: Trouble in Mind
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- UPC: 602517544635
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: On his new album, Trouble In Mind, the 32 year-old Carll navigates his way through both stormy weather and calm, sun-drenched waters with ease, emerging with songs that melt even the hardest heart in town. Their impact is heightened by the fact that they're songs born of both immersion in the works of his songwriting heroes and plenty of real world experience. Those elements certainly permeate Trouble In Mind, but there's a much sharper focus to the material, thanks in part, to more time in the studio and some great players sure to be familiar to roots-rock aficionados, including, Dan Baird, Darrell Scott, Will Kimbrough and former Flying Burrito Brother Al Perkins. Carll's personality, emotional but never too sentimental, mischievous, funny, world-weary and sardonic, imbues every track of Trouble in Mind.
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Customer Reviews
"She left me for Jesus" sucked me in (4.5 stars)
I heard the song and laughed so hard, I looked up the album. The first song is Ray Wylie Hubbard's "Drunken Poet's Dream." The last is a hilarious cover of "I don't want to grow up." I was sold and the tracks in the middle weren't just empty filler. "Trouble" just kept on delivering.
"Trouble in Mind" is a pretty good title for this bluesy sardonic collection of thoughtful and cynical humored country. This is Texas singer Carll's first release on a major label, Lost Highway.
My only complaint with this CD is the sound quality which is worth half a star. It's marginal in iTunes format and acceptable on my stereo. But, for the quality of the musicianship and the thought in the lyrics--I'll be looking up the rest of Carll's music very shortly.
Rebecca Kyle, May 2008
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Terrible Recording Quality
Lost Highway should be ashamed of themselves. Even in this ipod world this recording (ProTools) sounds as if it were recorded in a tin barn (and is as metallic sounding as only bad digital can be)! Cmon guys - you can do better than this for a very talented singer/songwriter. Buy "Little Rock" and skip this one (unless they rerecord it - which probably will never happen). If you enjoy rubbing your fingernails on fine grit sandpaper - then by all means - put the disk in the tray and turn it up!
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Superb Rootsy, Country-Blues Goodness
Hayes has grown both as a songwriter and as a performer with this major label debut. I have been following his career for several years now and could not be more proud of this effort. Well worth it at twice the price!
Do yourself a favor and check out his older stuff as well, particularly Little Rock and Flowers and Liquor. You will not be disappointed.
Enjoy!
-TW
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Hayes Carll CD
I love Hayes Carll's new CD. I gave it to my boyfriend for a gift and we listen to it everyday. Thanks for suggesting it. We had never heard of him before then and we will continue to seek out his music.
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Things can only get better with Hayes Carll
Excellent album, when I thought things could not get better after the brilliant Little Rock, Hayes Carll does it again. Probably his best record, and one of the best americana albums of the year. Highly recommended.
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