Little Rock (album)

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Little Rock
Hayes Little Rock Cover.jpg
Studio album by
Hayes Carll
ReleasedMarch 8, 2005
StudioHum Depot in Nashville, TN with additional recording at Three Trees in Whites Creek, TN.
Genre Country, Americana, Roots
Length40:11
Label Highway 87 [1]
Producer R.S. Field [2]
Hayes Carll chronology
Flowers & Liquor
(2002)
Little Rock
(2005)
Trouble in Mind
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Little Rock is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Hayes Carll. [1] [4] [2]

Contents

The album topped the Billboard Americana chart, the first self-released album to do so. [4]

Critical reception

The Austin Chronicle called the album "an Americana gem." [5] Exclaim! wrote that it "shows yet another talented Texas troubadour bound for greatness." [6] The Houston Press called it "wordy and witty enough to impress the Americana snobs, but plenty country enough for the dancehall crowd." [7]

Track listing

  1. Wish I Hadn't Stayed So Long – 3:44
  2. Take Me Away (John Evans and Adam Carroll) – 4:12
  3. Down The Road Tonight – 3:38
  4. Good Friends – 3:27
  5. Hey Baby Where You Been – 2:59
  6. Rivertown (Hayes Carll, Guy Clark) – 4:37
  7. Little Rock – 3:05
  8. Leave Here Standing – 2:40
  9. Sit In With The Band (Hayes Carll, John Evans) – 2:31
  10. Long Way Home – 4:46
  11. Chickens (Hayes Carll, Ray Wylie Hubbard) – 4:32

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 "Hayes Carll and Jack Ingram to play fall OKC show". Oklahoman.com. August 23, 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Hayes Carll | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  3. Little Rock at AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
  4. 1 2 "Hayes Carll comes in from the cold". Los Angeles Times. May 2, 2008.
  5. "Hayes Carll: Little Rock Album Review". www.austinchronicle.com.
  6. "Hayes Carll Little Rock". exclaim.ca.
  7. Gray, Chris (August 20, 2015). "Hayes Carll Is Closing Up the Honky-Tonks For a While". Houston Press.