Mic Harrison & The High Score

Waxed - Record Review from Issue #68 Mar-Apr 2007

Push Me On Home (Lynn Point)

After several solo outings, Knoxville’s Mic Harrison fronts a working country-rock band again here, as he did when most fans first got to know him. Several of the songs on this one, in fact, are co-written with his old V-Roys partner Scott Miller, including “The Only Road”, paved in this case with some twangy guitar shimmer different from Miller’s version. This band brings some familiar mid-’90s-style alt-country elements front and center, with no apologies, from the mid-rock lap steel tremors of Chris Cook to the juiced-up old-timey content of Harrison’s “Willfully” (about being taken by death, or something worse maybe, in the night). There’s good-time country (“Long Time”), songs that suggest the presence of alcoholic beverages (the ballad “Tomorrow’s Bloodshot Eyes”) and the John Prine-referencing rocker (“Wiser Than Whiskey”), and original, melodic story songs that Harrison and company rock hard.

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