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Jaron & The Long Road To Love – “That’s Beautiful To Me”
If there’s one thing his new single proves, it’s that despite his commercial reinvention as a country artist, Jaron Lowenstein is still a pop singer—if not because of marketing then because of musical soul
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Album Review: Little Big Town – The Reason Why
The Reason Why may be Little Big Town’s most focused, most consistent album to date, but the group has yet to determine how make the best use of its abundance of talent. That’s evidenced by an album that’s blander, less entertaining and less personable than it should be
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Gary Allan – “Kiss Me When I’m Down”
Allan’s singing on “Kiss me When I’m Down” is emotionally charged, and brilliantly draws out the song’s embedded masochism. He’s addicted to this woman like a junkie’s stuck on dope
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Jason Aldean – “My Kinda Party”
Aldean tackles Gilbert’s obtuse, throwaway lyrics with an abrasive, aggressive vocal that pushes every bit as hard as the full-fledged rock guitar licks that dominate the track
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Brad Paisley – “Anything Like Me”
In the end, we’re left with something that looks more like a high-quality reprint than an original work of art
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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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Zac Brown Band & Alan Jackson – “As She’s Walking Away”
“As She’s Walking Away” is another smash hit from Atlanta’s Zac Brown Band, a group that added three members between the recording of its previous and upcoming albums
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Jamey Johnson – “Playing The Part”
Jamey Johnson delivers another country gem with “Playing The Part,” the first official single from The Guitar Song, his upcoming double album
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Taylor Swift – “Mine”
“Mine” is a good song, but it shows absolutely no forward artistic vision. It’s a stale, stiff record that hungers for fresh ingredients. In the end, it just sounds creatively starved, and it’s so expected—so typically Taylor—that it already feels passé
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Joanna Smith – “Gettin’ Married”
Between the mediocre songwriting, the average singing and the stuck-in-the-90s production, “Gettin’ Married” comes off as a very C-list effort. Smith’s not ready for the big time, and why her label thinks she’s going to make so much as a dent in the country landscape is beyond me
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