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| Released | July 21, 2017 | |||
| Studio | Niles City Sound (Fort Worth, Texas) | |||
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| Length | 39:44 | |||
| Label | Single Lock | |||
| Producer | Niles City Sound | |||
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Goodnight Rhonda Lee is the fourth studio album by American musician Nicole Atkins. It was released in July 2017 under Single Lock Records.
In March 2017, Nicole Atkins announced that she was working on new material for her next album. [8]
In March 2017, Atkins announced that along with the new record, she would go on a 22-city spring tour to promote Goodnight Rhonda Lee ahead of its release, starting on March 13 at the Shipping and Receiving Bar in Fort Worth, Texas, and finishing on June 17 at the Mountain Jam festival in Hunter Mountain. [8] On February 21, 2018, Atkins announced a 14-city spring eastern U.S. tour, beginning on April 18 at the Saturn venue at Birmingham, Alabama, and ending on May 5 at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, New York. [9] On December 18, Atkins announced an 18-city European tour, starting on April 4, 2019 at The Blue Arrow in Glasgow, and finishing on April 30 at The Lexington in Islington, London. [10]
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 83/100 [11] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [12] |
| American Songwriter |  [13] |
| Drowned in Sound | 8/10 [3] |
| Exclaim! | 8/10 [14] |
| The Skinny | [15] |
| Slant Magazine | [16] |
| Under the Radar |   [1] |
Goodnight Rhonda Lee received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 83, based on 9 reviews. [11]
Marcy Donelson of AllMusic said, "Goodnight Rhonda Lee is hardly Atkins' first stylistic excursion into the past, but here, having an audibly sharp focus, a lot on her mind, and a leave-it-all-on-tape performance ethic make for her strongest impression since her debut." [12] Peter Ellman of Exclaim! said, "Amid soulful, R&B-indebted sounds married smoothly to the more country-leaning, Atkins has created her best and most resounding work yet." [14] Hal Horowitz of American Songwriter called it "a moving, intensely personal and wildly creative set that ranks as one of 2017's finest works", saying, "It might have taken three previous tries and introspective psychological searching to arrive here, but with Goodnight Rhonda Lee, Nicole Atkins gets all the pieces to fit." [13] Josh Hurst of Slant Magazine said, "Everything on Goodnight Rhonda Lee is immediate. Throughout, Atkins's lyrics eschew metaphor in favor of a more confessional mode, and her arrangements are punchy and direct. She also revels equally in her high notes and in her little cracks and imperfections. At no point is there any doubt that this is the album she's always wanted to make." [16] Nick Roseblade of Drowned in Sound said, "Goodnight Rhonda Lee never feels like a pastiche or a rip off of classic soul songs, but a celebration of the genre and life. Yes some songs could be trimmed a bit and maybe some of the motifs would be tighter, but overall this is an album by someone who knows exactly what she wants to say and how she wants to say it." [3]
American Songwriter ranked Goodnight Rhonda Lee number 19 on their list of the Top 25 Albums of 2017. The magazine's writer Hal Horowitz said that Atkins "shifts to full chanteuse mode, mixing countrypolitan with a '60s, Phil Spector-styled approach that sounds like nothing else in contemporary music", calling it "a spectacularly original, compelling work that is exhilarating and timeless." [17] Exclaim! ranked it number five on their list of the Top 10 Folk and Country Albums list. The magazine's writer Alan Ranta said that Atkins performs "songs that feature her greatest assets: her rich, classic voice and revelatory lyrics." [2]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "A Little Crazy" |
| 3:46 |
| 2. | "Darkness Falls So Quiet" | Atkins | 4:46 |
| 3. | "Listen Up" |
| 3:10 |
| 4. | "Goodnight Rhonda Lee" |
| 2:33 |
| 5. | "If I Could" |
| 3:24 |
| 6. | "Colors" |
| 2:46 |
| 7. | "Brokedown Luck" |
| 3:43 |
| 8. | "I Love Living Here (Even When I Don't)" |
| 3:32 |
| 9. | "Sleepwalking" |
| 3:46 |
| 10. | "A Night of Serious Drinking" |
| 4:10 |
| 11. | "A Dream Without Pain" |
| 4:08 |
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. [18]
Vocals
Production
Imagery
| Instruments
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| Chart | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Folk Albums (Billboard) [19] | 21 |
| US Independent Albums (Billboard) [20] | 18 |
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