It was little surprisnig for me to see Billy Bob Thornton doing music but hey, why not. Paris tried it too after all and it probably earned her enough money to buy a pair of shoes. Beautiful Door is a country album full of Thornton’s deep voice, which actually speaks almost more often than sing. Very fresh stuff!

A collection of twelve tracks, BEAUTIFUL DOOR, is a lyrical, sonic story about life and death, beginnings and ends. A blend of roots rock, country, and folk, the musical genres Billy Bob Thornton has always loved most, BEAUTIFUL DOOR is the follow up album to his third solo release in 2005, HOBO — and like HOBO, BEAUTIFUL DOOR is a collection of songs Thornton intended to have listened to as an “album,” in its entirety. “The album had to have a sequence. And even if it’s not an A+B+C song type of story– BEAUTIFUL DOOR is still a sonic landscape that both musically and lyrically flows from one track to the next.”

Remarkable in both its honesty and execution, “Beautiful Door” makes you want to go find Thornton’s earlier efforts, including a 2001 debut co-written and co-produced by old-school country guy Marty Stuart. (Thornton also headlined at South By Southwest in the wake of 2003’s “The Edge of the World.”) As recorded with guitarist Brad Davis (Stuart, Scruggs, Nelson), bassist Leland Sklar (Hall & Oates, CSN, James Taylor, Lyle Lovett) and keyboardist Teddy Andreadis (Guns ‘n’ Roses, Alice Cooper, “Skunk” Baxter), “Beautiful Door” is everything Thornton often hasn’t been in his wackadoo movie portrayals.  It’s an introspective country-rock record full of atmosphere and delicate insights. And, no, nobody kills Dwight Yoakam.

Tracklist:

01.  its just me                                          04:01
02.  restin your soul                                    03:37
03.  in the day                                          04:15
04.  beautiful door                                      04:07
05.  i gotta grow up                                      04:09
06.  hearts like mine                                    03:57
07.  carnival girl                                        04:15
08.  always countin                                      03:11
09.  pretty people                                        03:21
10.  i can tell you                                      03:24
11.  hope for glory                                      04:52
12.  the boy is gone                                      03:33

Artist ….: Billy Bob Thornton
Album …..: Beautiful Door
Genre …..: Country
Label …..: New Door Records
Encoder …: LAME 3.97 (VBR NEW)
Bitrate …: VBRkbps
Size ……: 61,2 MB

Release name: Billy_Bob_Thornton–Beautiful_Door-2007-WUS
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