The Civil Wars

This music is an amazing mix of contemporary and antebellum. I love the passion, musicality, lyrics all aimed right at the heart! You really feel this music!!! Strongly recommend!!!

The CD came within three days, and was in perfect condition. I was not even charged for shipping. Definitely recommend buying through Walmart's online service. 

If I'm given one word to describe this album, The Civil Wars, it would be theatrical. At times this album is dark and smokey, like cigarettes and bars - the brilliantly co-produced Rick Rubin track "I Had A Girl" (track 2), "Devil's Backbone" (track 6), to the opener "The One That Got Away." At times it's delicate and tender - "Same Old, Same Old" (track 3), "Dust To Dust" (track 4), and "Eavesdrop" (track 5). It even has two covers - "Tell Mama" (track 8) by the one and only Etta James and "Disarm" (track 10) by The Smashing Pumpkins. My absolute favorite though is "Sacred Heart" (track 11), sung entirely in French -- which puts me in a cafe somewhere close to the Eiffel Tower, and I'm sipping on coffee while waiting for my date who is late. Overall, this album has that smokey-alternative-country-indie-folk vibe with lyrics of unsure love. Most songs do a wonderful job at slowly building up climax with instrumentation, while others are just bare bone stringed instrument lo-fi. I'd easily give it 5 stars but the cover of Etta James, "Tell Mama", does absolutely nothing for me; but I applaud them for trying anyway. Here's to hoping that this duo will release more music in the future, because 'internal discord' or not, the music they create together is a match made in heaven.