
Sitting down and listening to Josh T. Pearson ’s incandescent début solo record, The Last of the Country Gentlemen , a clear picture of the Texan country musician forms in your mind: a brooding artist whose gaze is as intense as his speech, whose dialogue is as impenetrable and tangled as his vast beard. ...Country Gentlemen contains what Pearson refers to as “ten-minute long break-up songs” which have touched many a fragile psyche, and doubtlessly soothed many an aching heart. Laying his soul bare on record, Pearson’s haunting, incantatory vocals [...]