Good Light

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With their fifth studio album, Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors wear their rootsy folk-rock songs with the ease and comfort of well-worn blue jeans. But Holcomb actually likens music to footwear in the opening “Another Man’s Shoes.” His wife, Ellie Bannister Holcomb, provides sunny vocal harmonies here and throughout <i>Good Light</i>, at times sounding like a young Emmylou Harris. The following title track emits guitar tones so radiant and warm it sounds like Holcomb found a way to crossbreed Tom Petty’s Rickenbacker with George Harrison’s Gretsch Duo Jet. But it’s the soaring melodies and life-affirming lyrics that warrant naming the album after that song. Ellie’s natural drawl fits the twangy confessional “Tennessee” like a well-tailored dress and hits a more impassioned pitch (which would also work well in a Ryan Adams song) in “Rooftops.” Where much of <i>Good Light</i> has sentimental restraint and a subtly earthy grace, “Nothing Like a Woman” gets more festive; the rhythm section kicks out an uptempo shuffle under rootsy organ drones, piano, and vintage-toned guitar leads.

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