Album: Boys And Girls in America
Year: 2006
It seems to me that “Chillout Tent” is one of the more divisive songs in the Hold Steady canon.
After all, the story it tells is a combination of meet-cute and meet-gross, featuring a pair of singers — Dave Pirner and Elizabeth Elmore — voicing the thoughts of the characters in the songs, and the music is filled with dramatic piano flourishes and mariachi horns.
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