National Trouble Will Find MeUpon first spin, Trouble Will Find Me, the warm, wistful, and weary sixth long player from the National, sounds a lot like 2010's warm, wistful, and weary High Violet, but where the former was built on a foundation of suburban despondency and casual, middle class self destruction (and skillfully juggled melodrama and dark comedy), the latter feels mired in regret, seeking refuge in the arms of old friends and lost lovers, sounding for all the world

but the song grows less and less lucid: "Only love is all maroon/ Lapping lakes like leery loons/ Leaving rope burns-- reddish ruse

is easily one of the '70s best rock debuts

Betty Wright and members of the Gap Band

The inclusion of a cover

Rob Deans (piano

But this isn't simply a bruk record

released earlier in 1977

considering how spare each of the individual elements present that night were

The double-CD LIFE AFTER DEATH arrives in stores

he wrote and recorded most of the songs that would eventually become For Emma

and their combination of arena-sized guitar-pop

scoring one big hit in the 1958 rock & roll ballad "It's Only Make Believe