The Civil Wars, Barton Hollow Album Review Rel.Feb,2011

The Civil Wars. Please let me have a minute of your time to talk about such a wonderful and upcoming duo that will pierce your emotions with their crisscross harmony. With their newest album Barton Hollow, The Civil Wars have gained a medium sized batch of recent attention this year and I say it's very well deserved. The slow passion throughout this album was strung out very well. The 2nd track "I've got this friend" gives you such a tremendous feeling of emotion as first John sings first then eventually after the first few verses Joy brings her wonderful voice to the table. The two show such great partnership in their style of music.

The whole completion of this album was truly amazing and I am so pleased to listen to it so many more times. Lets the good times come with sweet harmony John and Joy. On the grand scale of things I would give this album a fantastic


                         8.5/10 Stars
The single as well as the album is called Barton Hollow and up heaves a very large beat into your heart. This song sounds like it's definitely in Drop D with John smoothly leading the song. The sheer power of John's booming voice goes so well as Joy is backing him up with her oh so sweet voice. Such succulent partnership can be shown when they play at the NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert. It seems as the song gets going their voices both become so much louder to where the raw emotion seeps through.

Having being nominated for Duo of the year by CMT, I hope the momentum continues. "Poison and Wine" was on this album although released in 2009 it's still a great song. The song in this album that actually made me see their amazing style of duets was "Forget Me Not" because it sounds so light and proud to where you just can't help to love it!. Joy shows her lovely voice in "Girl with the Red Balloon" with lyrics such as "Did she let him go or did the four winds blow him away?". Her voice could soothe you to bed with a smile on your face.


Please give it a listen folks and you will not be disappointed.
Well Regards Folks.