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Brendan Benson’s career path has been a roller coaster of lows such as label disputes keeping records in limbo, and mild highs including the track “Tiny Spark” from his 2002 album Lopalco’s being used in a Saturn ad. Recently, though, his profile got a bit brighter when he teamed up with Jack White to form the super’ish group, The Raconteurs. So, despite putting out three truly great but minimally heard albums, starting with 1996′s totally ignored One Mississippi, an album deemed by my friends at the time as the greatest $2.99 cut-out money could buy, now seemed the time for Benson to finally break through. Unfortunately, My Old, Familiar Friend is not quite the album fans might have hoped for. It, like Benson’s career, is filled with some highs but is fleshed out with a few too many lows.
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