''Bright Flight'' is the fourth studio album by American

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band

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, released in 2001. "Tennessee" was chosen as the title track for an EP that also included "Long Long Gone", "I'm Gonna Love The Hell Out of You", and "Turn Your Guns Around".

Critical reception

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'' wrote: "Fusing gorgeous, tear-sodden country melodies with lyrics that inspire love and anxiety in equal measure, ''Bright Flight'' poetically captures a drunken night spent contemplating suicide while staring at the Nashville skyline." '' The Stranger'' wrote that "the stories told and the places visited are rich with radiant imagery--not always happy, but encouraging in their pure, honest existence." ''

Trouser Press ''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who, Dave Schulps, and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference ...

'' wrote that the album "is not, on the whole, as agreeably encompassing as ''American Water'', it is the work of an artist increasingly able to get to the emotional heart of a song without relying on the crutches of irony and overt cleverness."

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians * David Berman - lead vocals, guitar * Cassie Berman - vocals on "Slow Education", "Let's Not and Say We Did", and "Tennessee", bass * William Tyler - guitar, vocals on "Let's Not and Say We Did" * Mike Fellows - bass * Tim Barnes - drums, percussion * Paul Niehaus - pedal steel guitar * Tony Crow - piano, organ, electric piano, synthesizer, vocals on "Let's Not and Say We Did" and "Friday Night Fever" Additional Personnel * Hilary Small - artwork * Mark Nevers - engineer, producer * Mike Fellows - assistant producer

References

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