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I heard the first song I'd ever heard by Josh T. Pearson only a couple of months ago. It was something I stumbled across on YouTube called "Woman, When I've Raised Hell (You're Gonna Know It)." It was one of the greatest single songs I'd ever heard in my life, and I was counting down the days until Pearson's debut album came along.

But then,  it being me, I lost track. Until this morning, when I was reminded by a passing comment about raising hell, and now I have copy. The album is The Last of the Country Gentlemen, and every song on it is as good or better. It's one of those albums that I have the feeling won't be ever too far from me. And though I could sit here and list a great string of adjectives about it, I think instead I'm going to drink some bourbon and listen to it again, pretending like I'm working.

If it wasn't for Slim Cessna's Auto Club's Unentitled, I'd say there was no other music you really needed to buy this year. Which ain't to say there's nothing else good out, there probably is, just that you probably don't really need anything else.

Here's a couple videos. Somehow they don't quite do credit to the whole album this way. The album's something you won't find your way out of without very great effort.

Country Dumb:

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Sweetheart, I Ain't Your Christ:

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Thou Are Loosed:

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Woman, When I've Raised Hell (You're Gonna Know It):

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