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| Trouble in Mind | 
 enlarge | Artist: Hayes Carll
Label: Lost Highway
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 337
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 001045202
UPC: 602517544635
EAN: 0602517544635
ASIN: B00157OI8M
Release Date: April 8, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Solid April 8, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Very solid. Hayes doesn't disappoint, clever lines, good hooks. Mainstream country radio won't touch it with a ten foot pole, but if they would then it wouldn't be good would it? Hayes plants himself firmly in the great tradition of Texas singer songwriters with this effort.
Went for the Trifecta and did it April 17, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is another example of great songwriting and personality coming through an album. Hayes keeps getting betetr and his maturity hasn't affected his devil may care attitude. He is the best
 Oh Hayes...... May 23, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
First off, what a dreadful tinny recording, either the recording engineer or the mastering engineer should be taken out and shot at dawn!! I played Ryan Bingham's Mescalito straight after this (also on Lost Highway) and it is in a different league from a sound quality perspective (better music too).
As for the CD, I have to say I find much less satisfying than either Flowers & Liquor or Little Rock. I am a huge Hayes fan and have seen live a few times and he is fantastic on stage but on this CD it seems like he is trying too hard and the songs have lost much of the spontaneity and freshness of his debut and sophomore efforts. It may be that now Hayes has "made it" with a deal with Lost Highway records it seems like he has over thought the arrangements and is trying too hard. Both of his first two CD's are much better than this one. I give it 3 stars only a Hayes fan.....
An introduction to someone I already knew June 17, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Just got a copy of Hayes Carll's "Trouble in Mind".
Let me state at the outset that I really wanted to find something to dislike about this album/artist. Really. I put on my cynical big boy pants and black beret and tried to poke him with the derivative mashup label (which would rightfully stick), but it seemed like he just donned it like a Wall Drug trademark and waved it at me. And it worked.
Carll is the unholy spawn of a "Country Bob" Dylan, pre-prison Steve Earll, an apolitical John Prine with a couple of fingers of Hank Williams. Roll `em all up, give `em a tax stimulus check and send them out into the south east Texas night to find a bar with generic neon beer signs and you have Hayes Carll.
Funny as hell without working too hard for it, interesting like a hand waving bar conversation between William S, Burroughs and Dolly Parton and just plain enjoyable. If you like the badboy/alt.country/Americana stuff this would be a great addition to your collection. It should come with a bottle of whiskey (of uncertain pedigree)....you know, the kind you get drunk on rather than sip.
Wow April 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I stumbled upon this cd because it was linked to several others I had purchased. The samples seemed promising so I spent my precious music dollars on this cd. I found myself tapping my toe & smiling through my first listen to the entire cd. Hayes gritty voice fits his music perfectly. I especially like the upbeat, clever Downtown Girl and the irrervently humorous She Left Me for Jesus. This guy deserves a great Texas following.
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