Barton Hollow (studio album)
by The Civil Wars
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Barton Hollow is ranked as the best album by The Civil Wars.
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Barton Hollow track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/09/2025 12:23 | TonySayers61 | 23,072 | 64/100 |
| ! | 04/05/2025 04:19 | Herdandhokies | 298 | 56/100 |
| ! | 01/28/2025 06:16 |  ddeeddles64 | 2,816 | 72/100 |
| ! | 10/25/2024 08:25 | cicadelic | 11,312 | 73/100 |
| ! | 07/02/2024 14:39 | Lefty21 | 518 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.7/100, a mean average of 75.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.8.
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Pleasant enough stuff but I prefer John Paul White’s solo albums. This feels rather flat in comparison.
Reminds me of the Plant/Kraus collaboration.
Ok but the whole thing sound manufactured to me.
zdwyatt 10/24/2013 19:28 | #89101
I first heard the song Barton Hollow and thought these guys reminded me of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. After hearing the album, which doesn't have anything else quite as raucous as that track, I think they're more like Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.
I'm going to have to agree with alexfields. These people are clearly pop artists. Joy Williams had been recording Christian Pop music for a decade prior to the formation of this group. The harmonizing is pleasant. If you're into vocals, the album is nice. I just have a hard time shaking the fact that Williams was originally marketed as a Christian Britney Spears. The chick is from Santa Cruz. A California beach town. Pretty far from "Barton Hollow"-
The songwriting is solid, and the vocal harmonizing is lovely, but this album kindof sounds like a couple of songwriters who don't know anything about country trying to do country. The country and folk stylings just feel a little fake, which makes the whole album a little less enjoyable than it could have been.
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