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- Artist: Jeff Black
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- Release Date: July 26, 2005
- Type: Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Folk
Review
Jeff Black has won a solid rep for writing impressionistic songs that are smart without forgetting the emotional undercurrent, and Tin Lily should deepen that feeling. The slow-rolling "Easy On Me" works like an updated, less sexist version of Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe."Black's narrator doesn't want commitment any more than Dylan's, he just has a nicer way of putting it. "Hollow of Your Hand" is more prosaic, evoking the open road and the American landscape without getting too specific. Is he living in the shadow of a lover's hand? Or perhaps someone -- a singer or a writer -- who's come before him? In the end, the identity matters less than the impression of "farmlands of southern Illinois" opening up to reveal all of their natural glory. Black wraps his vocals around the lyrics of these and other songs, bringing a warm resonance that shows he's lived with them. The subtle arrangements of piano, guitar, and organ create a layered underpinning that adds another dimension to a song like "Nineteen" without overpowering it, while the rocking guitar brings a carefree abandon to "Libertine." These shifts in tone also give Tin Lily more variety than 2003's B-Sides and Confessions, Vol. 1, and ultimately make it a more satisfying recording. Black, it seems, has found his comfort zone. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr., All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Easy On Me | Jeff Black | Jeff Black | (2:59) |
| Hollow of Your Hand | Jeff Black | Jeff Black | (3:22) |
| Nineteen | Jeff Black | Jeff Black | (5:03) |
| Libertine | Jeff Black | Jeff Black | (2:54) |
| Free at Last | Jeff Black | Jeff Black | (4:47) |
| Hard Way Out | Jeff Black | Jeff Black | (4:19) |
| Closer | Jeff Black | Jeff Black | (3:15) |
| All Days Shine | Jeff Black | Jeff Black | (4:11) |
| Heaven Now | Jeff Black | Jeff Black | (4:13) |
| These Days | Jeff Black | Jeff Black | (3:22) |
| How Long | Jeff Black | Jeff Black | (4:23) |
| A Better Way | Jeff Black | Jeff Black | (4:21) |
