Album — I Lost it All by Eric Durrance

 

Eric Durrance makes a run for most depressing album of the year. He attempts this by adhering strictly to the governance of the “yet-to-be-overdone” country music concepts of breaking up, hard luck (but being topped by Vietnam War veterans), suicide, familial death, job loss, car crashes, cancer, complete human misery, etc. One of his two “change of pace” songs adds a driving rhythm, but nonetheless, is about divorce — It’s All Over but the Crying. However, he at least sounds pretty good for all the bad he’s singing about. Check for yourself.

Worth listening, if you: want to commit suicide … or have your problems put into severe perspective … or really want some country songs about life being hard — that you can tap your toe to …