Goodnight Rhonda Lee

Nicole Atkins - Goodnight Rhonda Lee
Critic Score
Based on 9 reviews
2017 Ratings: #86 / 940
User Score
Based on 47 ratings
Liked by 3 people
July 21, 2017 / Release Date
LP / Format
Pop Soul / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
AllMusic

Goodnight Rhonda Lee is hardly Atkins' first stylistic excursion into the past, but here, having an audibly sharp focus, a lot on her mind, and a leave-it-all-on-tape performance ethic make for her strongest impression since her debut.

90
Northern Transmissions
With some of the strongest and most emotional instrumentation she’s ever brought to a record Atkins has delivered her finest record to date and will be hard-pressed to find anyone who despises her record.
80
Drowned in Sound
Yes some songs could be trimmed a bit and maybe some of the motifs would be tighter, but overall this is an album by someone who knows exactly what she wants to say and how she wants to say it.
80
American Songwriter
The singer may not have been made for these times, but she creates a defining portrait of an artist whose grasp of the past creates ageless, enduring music for any year.
80
The Skinny
As ever, it's the songcraft, carried by that formidable voice, that fires Atkins' creative impetus.
80
Exclaim!
Amid soulful, R&B-indebted sounds married smoothly to the more country-leaning, Atkins has created her best and most resounding work yet.
80
Slant Magazine

Everything on Goodnight Rhonda Lee is immediate. Throughout, Atkins’s lyrics eschew metaphor in favor of a more confessional mode, and her arrangements are punchy and direct.

80
GIGsoup
She’s made a blue-eyed pop-country-soul album that flies in the face of what music in 2017 should sound like.
70
Under the Radar

A little bit country, a whole lotta soul, from the dirty stomp of "Brokedown Luck" to the breezy pop of "Sleepwalking," a good deal of Goodnight Rhonda Lee would've been at home on '70s pop radio.

84

One Word Review: Smooth

lemuriams
64

Typical Singer-Songwriter album

Sunderland4ever
88

Favorite tracks:
Goodnight Rhonda Lee, Sleepwalking (10)

Rated on: March 27, 2020

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Track List

  1. A Little Crazy
  2. Darkness Falls So Quiet
  3. Listen Up
  4. Goodnight Rhonda Lee
  5. If I Could
  6. Colors
  7. Brokedown Luck
  8. I Love Living Here (Even When I Don't)
  9. Sleepwalking
  10. A Night of Serious Drinking
  11. A Dream Without Pain

Year End Lists

#19/American Songwriter
/AllMusic
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Added on: July 6, 2017