| Drive You Home Again | ||||
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| Released | May 16, 1999 | |||
| Recorded | December 2–17, 1998 | |||
| Genre | Blues, folk | |||
| Length | 46:17 | |||
| Label | HighTone | |||
| Producer | Stephen Bruton | |||
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Drive You Home Again is an album by American singer/songwriter Chris Smither, released in 1999.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| Robert Christgau | A− [2] |
| Tom Hull | B [3] |
| Rolling Stone | |
Writing for Allmusic, critic Jeff Burger wrote of the album "Smither's gravelly, instantly recognizable voice is a perfect fit for his pensive, sharply honed lyrics and his blues and folk-based music... Like Nick Drake and the Van Morrison of Astral Weeks days, Smither makes you feel as if you're in a dream. You may not want to wake up for a while." [1] Music critic Robert Christgau wrote of the album "...you'd never suspect he was a moral philosopher. But in fact he is that even rarer thing, a moral philosopher with good values, and here his songwriting takes over a career marked by killer covers... he thinks on his butt while keeping the beat with his foot. He's worth attending even if you think blues are history." [2]
All songs by Chris Smither unless otherwise noted.
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