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Album Review: Trace Adkins – Cowboy’s Back In Town
Some of these songs are a stretch even by Adkins’ standards, like “Hold My Beer,” a simply ridiculous trailer-trash wedding anthem in which the groom asks the preacher to hold his can of beer so that he can kiss his new bride
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Album Review: Marty Stuart – Ghost Train
One of country music’s most talented and ambitious artists (as well as one of the genre’s preeminent historians), Stuart demonstrates a deep dedication to this project’s mission by treating these 14 classic-sounding songs with due reverence
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Album Review: Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
The wait has been worth it—even if the album requires a bit of stamina in order to fully grasp the triumph
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Album Review: Trailer Choir – Tailgate
For the most part, Tailgate is a 10-song collection that mirrors the album artwork’s style. These are stale, cheap tunes with run-down themes, spruced up and made livable through the hearty and consistent application of musical air freshener that comes in the form of thick, loud pop-country production
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Album Review: Jack Johnson – To The Sea
There is little doubt that Jack Johnson has become a sonic caricature of his laid-back self. The release of his latest effort, the let’s-all-be-happy-and-chill album To The Sea, makes it clear that the singer/songwriter understands that Jack Johnson (the brand) needs to continually pump out new product
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Album Review: Doug Burr – O Ye Devastator
Similar to Joe Pug, Josh Ritter and even Cory Chisel, Burr can go from introspective to anthemic in a few seconds flat with not only ease, but believability to boot. As evidenced on not only this latest release, but his On Promenade album from a couple of years ago, Burr and other artists like him occupy a sneakily varied space of the musical universe where literate tales of love and courtship can rock out with reverb-drenched fervor, as does “At the Public Dance“.
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Album Review: Twistable, Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute to the Songs of Shel Silverstein
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that above even the album’s unifying sonic threads, it is the otherworldly and unmistakable pen of Silverstein that truly binds these selections together with a delightful wit and presence
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