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The Weight

Jul 25, 2009, 7:19pm Wine, Women And Song
The Weight I n many ways, Are Men, the second album from the Weight, is really a debut. Bandleader Joseph Plunkett started out as a one-man acoustic act and then started gigging with a revolving set of session musicians. Before long, Plunkett settled on a more permanent lineup for the band, and they began to shift from the earnest, mannered alt-country of 2004's 10 Mile Grace to a sound that owes more to '70s honky-tonk rock than No Depression dissection. The Weight's transition from philosophers of Americana to funky outlaws is mostly successful, offering all the party [...]
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