Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys, Empty House - 36m 6s

Tracks & Durations

1. The Good Ain't Gone	3:17
2. Every Night I Leave You in My Mind	3:33
3. Don't Make Me Break Your Heart	3:33
4. It Won't Be Long (And I'll Be Hating You)	3:33
5. I Just Lost My Mind	2:40
6. I Don't Like that Mirror	3:45
7. The Tear I Left Behind	2:54
8. Empty House Dawn and Twilight	3:54
9. Lets' Leave Me	3:21
10. Heartache to Hide	3:28
11. Black Iron Bridge	1:59

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Review

This Kansas City quintet, together since 1997, long ago established their flair for honky-tonk minimalism delivered with finesse and free of campy, self-conscious imitation. On their fourth album, 11 numbers--all but one originals--are concise and tailored to fit Hobart's tense George Jones/Johnny Paycheck phrasing as he explores the nooks and crannies of romantic strife. He warns on "Don't Make Me Break Your Heart," and captures sorrow morphing to anger on a 1960s Paycheck cover, "It Won't Be Long (And I'll Be Hating You)." Paycheck's particular style of angst lives on in "I Don't Like That Mirror's" thoughtful, reflective bitterness. The subtly humorous "The Tear I Left Behind" effectively detours into shuffle-swing, and the album ends with "Black Iron Bridge," an abbreviated blockbuster of a suicide number. The Misery Boys share Hobart's sense of economy. T.C. Dobbs and Blackjack Snow are a solid rhythm section; guitarist J.B. Morris and steel guitarist Solomon Hofer shine by knowing when not to play. If there's one real-life tragedy, it's that the mainstream hasn't yet discovered these guys. --Rich Kienzle

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