Living With The Law (studio album)
by Chris Whitley
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Living With The Law is ranked as the best album by Chris Whitley.
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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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| ! | 10/23/2025 19:48 |  paladisiac | 7,261 | 65/100 |
| ! | 04/03/2025 07:48 | cicadelic | 11,417 | 73/100 |
| ! | 04/26/2024 12:00 |  Sandrof1969 | 2,681 | 68/100 |
| ! | 11/10/2023 07:22 | Johnnyo | 9,529 | 77/100 |
| ! | 07/20/2023 19:49 | TonySayers61 | 23,185 | 64/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.6/100, a mean average of 79.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.1.
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Repo 01/01/2018 22:08 | #204352
IT COULD ONLY HAVE COME FROM TEXAS
I have no idea what this is. What genre it belongs to. But I know where it’s from. That’s obvious. TEXAS. In big capital letters. I didn’t have to look at no stinkin' biography. I didn’t have to read about his influences. Because this is Texas rock through & through. And by all rights, it should have been HUGH in 1991. Because It’s Country Blues Roots Rock that’s not really that far removed in a lot of respects from what was going on in Seattle. It’s raw. It’s naked. It’s confessional. It does for country and roots rock what grunge was doing for heavy metal. Strips away the artificially and 80s production, to reveal something naked, raw & vulnerable but ironically all the stronger & tougher for it. It seems to have been spawned from the the land. The Texas dirt itself. If Chris Whitley had been born in the pacific Northwest instead of Texas, it is easy to imagine that he could have been spearheading some grunge band. With both vocals and guitar. I’m so glad he was from Texas instead.
Grade A: ESSENTIAL. This easily deserves a spot on the 1991 dais. As one of its best albums. It’s an oddity. Firmly planted in Texas’ Country Blues lore, yet with its own singular vision and style. It’s an impassioned record. Naked and raw like some of the other best music of this year. Far, far removed from the "Nashville" country of this period.
I remember back at the time seeing it in a bunch of year end lists, but my tastes were too far removed from roots rock, blues, and country then. But, now I clearly see why. And it takes the first spot (for now) on my first year chart on this first day of this new year.
Captain_Dude 08/02/2014 19:47 | #118526
Great album. Sadly, he's no longer with us. I would have loved to see his music evolve further.
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