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Crazy Heart reminded us that the Oscar-winning actor could sing, so the surprise here isn’t Jeff Bridges‘ worn-denim vocals, which producer T Bone Burnett surrounds with his trademark chamber-country atmospherics. Rather, it’s Bridges’ songwriting on appealingly idiosyncratic cuts like the philosophical ”Tumbling Vine” and ”Falling Short,” on which he wonders if God put him here to ”bushwhack a path.” Spoken like the Dude himself. — Entertainment Weekly