no comments on the pazz and jop, 

It took me months to warm up to "Pontoon," but it went from being mediocre in late summer to the best chorus I'd heard by early winter. It's mostly the craft — plus the almost-naughty double entendre in how they sing "motor-boatin'." —Anthony Easton

Dwight Yoakam's 3 Pears is a slight, spare and solemn record, whose skills at quiet understatement could be read as boredom. Instead we get a mid-career set of small discussions about personal failures and social misconnections — a miniature of perfect songs about terrible emotions. —Anthony Easton