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"Goodnight Rhonda Lee" is the fourth full length studio album from American singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins, released Feb 4, 2014 through Single Lock Records.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 84, based on 7 reviews, indicating "Universal acclaim".
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“I guess I just wasn’t made for these times,” Brian Wilson famously sang, but that could just as well be the motto of singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins. If it wasn’t obvious from her previous three albums, “A Little Crazy,” the opening track on her fourth release and first in three years, makes that abundantly clear.
Atkins explodes out of the blocks with her powerful voice, a combination of Roy Orbison’s high drama and k.d. lang’s husky control, on a sweeping ballad that feels like it should have been produced by Phil Spector. Piano flourishes, strings, pedal steel and the song’s sheer widescreen approach makes the track, notably co-written with Chris Isaak, an instant classic; the kind of tune that sounds like it was written for a ’60s diva. It’s an appropriate way to kick off a moving, intensely personal and wildly creative set that ranks as one of 2017’s finest works.
It might have taken three previous tries and introspective psychological searching to arrive here, but with Goodnight Rhonda Lee, Nicole Atkins gets all the pieces to fit. The singer may not have been made for these times, but she creates a defining portrait of an artist whose grasp of the past creates ageless, enduring music for any year. Reviewed by Hal Horowitz for americansongwriter.com
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