| Lost Souls | ||||
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| Released | 1990 | |||
| Recorded | The Outpost, Stoughton, Massachusetts | |||
| Genre | Folk rock, roots rock, Celtic | |||
| Length | 44:02 | |||
| Label | Atco | |||
| Producer | Peter Henderson, the Raindogs [1] | |||
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Lost Souls is the debut album by the folk/roots rock band the Raindogs, released in 1990 on Atco Records. [2] [3] Written by lead singer Mark Cutler and presenting a hybrid roots rock sound with Celtic elements, Lost Souls drew critical attention but was not a commercial success.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| Calgary Herald | C [5] |
| Chicago Tribune |  [1] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [6] |
The Los Angeles Times thought that the "lilting yet propulsive fiddle gusts, swirling through the basic guitar-rock architecture, give Raindogs both sweetness and bite." [7] The Orlando Sentinel deemed the album "a solid effort [on which] none of the songs really stood out." [8] The Washington Post called it "catchy but a little cautious." [9]
AllMusic wrote that "Lost Souls is perfectly played material and an interesting debut, but there's not enough personality to send this over the top." [4] The Rolling Stone Album Guide declared the album to be "a perfectly unremarkable example of foursquare folk-rock traditionalism." [6]
(All tracks written by Mark Cutler)
