Hard lessons

"The finest country music, from Johnny Cash and Hank Williams through to Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, has always been driven by a rebel heartbeat. It's easy to understand why punk rock-loving Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett might relate to its outlaw tendencies, which seems more pertinent than ever at a point in history where the divide between `them' and `us' appears to be widening. So while Hard Lessons, his second solo album, largely adheres to the template established by his debut, 2017's West Coast Town, sprinkling open-hearted Americana with Social Distortion-style grit, there's less nostalgic sentimentality in the lyrics this time around, and significantly more crunch to the guitars".

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"While Hard Lessons has plenty of riffs and solos, it's not an album where six-strings are pushed to the forefront: they're merely the fuel for a good old-fashioned barn-burner of a rock record. It's the kind of sunny, burly record that gets the business done so efficiently (the album lasts a little over a half-hour) that you want to start it all over again once it's done spinning".

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