Parish Bar is the sixth album by American-born singer/songwriter Jeb Loy Nichols

Jeb Loy Nichols

Jeb Loy Nichols is an American-born singer, songwriter, musician, and artist currently living in Wales. His music combines elements of soul, country, folk, reggae and blues.-Biography:...

, released in 2009 on the Tuition record label in the UK

United Kingdom

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 and the Compass

Compass Records

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 record label in the US

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. The album is made of songs recorded in-between other projects.

Track listing

1. "Countrymusicdisco45" - 4:12
2. "Whole Thing Going On" - 2:55
3. "Just a Country Boy" - 2:16
4. "I'm Blue I'm Lonesome Too" - 2:38
5. "Days Are Mighty" - 2:46
6. "Too Much Not Enough" - 2:14
7. "Satan's Helper" - 2:52
8. "Foggy Road Ride" - 2:59
9. "My Kind" - 3:31
10. "Neath the Cold Ground" - 3:35
11. "So Sad" - 3:14
12. "Dr. Noblio" - 4:02
13. "I Took a Memory to Lunch" - 3:30

Reception

Nichols' sixth release received positive reviews. Allmusic said "Parish Bar may be the album that puts Nichols over, and it deserves to. He's slowly but surely gone about his business, and his sense of craft, honesty, and curiosity makes for music that is rich, sophisticated, and resonant with all the qualities of the human spirit." NPR's Fresh Air

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 said "this new collection, which Nichols says he recorded over the past couple years — mostly at home in his spare time between other projects — is his most inviting album yet. It seems both offhand and sincerely curious in its musical explorations." Crawdaddy!

Crawdaddy!

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 said "Nichols delivers his tales in a Boz Scaggs

Boz Scaggs

William Royce "Boz" Scaggs is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1970s with several Top 20 hit singles in the United States, along with the #2 album, Silk Degrees. Scaggs continues to write, record music and tour.-Early life and career:Scaggs was born in Canton,...

-meets-J.J. Cale

J.J. Cale

JJ Cale , born John Weldon Cale on December 5, 1938, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and musician. Cale is one of the originators of the Tulsa Sound, a loose genre drawing on blues, rockabilly, country, and jazz influences. Cale's personal style has...

tone that’s slyly jazzy and sincerely country, a kicked-back style that complements the languid grooves he creates for his music."