Loosely focused on reliving some of the rowdier days of his youth, Butch Walker drenches The Spade in nostalgia.
The majority of the album is grounded in Jennings’s competent but unremarkable piano playing.
The things Lady Antebellum do well on Own the Night are few and far between.
The album never sounds like the work of a proper band, since there’s no actual interplay between any of the instrumental performances.
Ghost to a Ghost/Gutter Town suggests that Williams’s only just begun to showcase his apparently boundless creativity.
Here for a Good Time is both a good time and a new peak for Strait.
What’s most disappointing about Celestial Electric is that it loses what makes both AM and Shawn Lee worth following in the first place.
The album allows Campbell to end his career both on his own terms and on a real high note.
In dropping the irony for a moment, Keen yet again toys with expectations and shakes up his formula.
It’ll be a shame if radio doesn’t take the album as a perfect opportunity to correct its gender imbalance.
Long Line of Heartaches should earn Smith a place alongside genre vets like Loretta Lynn and Johnny Cash.
Bridges fully inhabits his vocal turns, giving each song a clear point of view and real sense of character.
There’s nothing on the album to make it stand out from the rest of the Music Row assembly line.
Ultimately, it’s a matter of aesthetic choices that just don’t play to Fountains of Wayne’s considerable strengths.
Chief doesn’t make Church a country music Jesus, but it does back up a good deal of his braggadocio.
This is the kind of freewheeling, creative rock record that should make Romweber a key influence on yet another generation.
The refinement of the songs on Life’s Rich Pageant are highlighted by the reissue’s second disc.
Chris Young’s Neon at least gives the Nashville Star winner a platform for his impressive voice.
The album affords Chambers opportunities for more adventurous stylistic diversions.
Red River Blue proves that Blake Shelton is a capable singer who chooses to sing some lackluster songs.