ALAN JACKSON - Freight Train reviews
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lthough the style vs. substance debate has been raging for more than 50 years along Nashville's Music Row, there's no mystery about which side Alan Jackson falls on. Just as the fruit-flavored martini is for drinkers who don't much care for the hard bite of gin, the vast majority of Nashville's most famous export is intended for folks who don't much care for country music--at least not Jackson's brand of traditionalism. His 14th studio album, "Freight Train," opens with the blue-collar tribute "Hard Hat and a Hammer," which could be a giant radio hit, given the current economic woes in the heartland. He duets with Lee Ann Womack on Vern Gosdin's 1977 weeper, "Til the End," and recruits bluegrass queen Rhonda Vincent for harmony on three tracks, including the haunting, lovely "Every Now and Then." And Jackson combines genuine emotion with a clever twist on "Tail Lights Blue."--Wade Jessen...full text |
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| Boston |
| Alan Jackson’s 18th album takes its name from one of the songs contained therein, but that song’s barreling, bluegrass-tinged locomotive pace and love-gone-bad sentiments make it a bit of a titular misnomer. This is a record of slow and midtempo songs where the steel predominates and the upside of love prevails, from the relaxed, quasi-cocktail country of its first single, “It’s Just That Way,’’ to a closing troika that travels through the intensity of love (“Big Green Eyes’’) to the joys of the domestic variety (“True Love Is a Golden Ring’’) and its capacity to change, grow, and deepen as it ages (“The Best Keeps Getting Better’’). For the rest, Jackson touches on themes he’s visited many times before, including a tip of the hat to the blue-collar world (“Hard Hat and a Hammer’’) and an appreciation of relaxed good times (“That’s Where I Belong’’). He also marks the passing of hard-country predecessor Vern Gosdin by reprising Gosdin’s hit duet “Till The End,’’ with Lee Ann Womack’s help. There isn’t anything revelatory or strikingly different here — just the solid, precise craftsmanship of an artist now deep into his career. (Out tomorrow) -- STUART MUNRO...full text |
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| Ew |
| Nashville's a different town than it was in the '90s, but to borrow one of Freight Train's many hackneyed metaphors, Alan Jackson remains predictable as the sunrise every morning. So it's time for another round of country music madlibs, and with the exception of ''After 17'' — an awkward ode to a teenaged lass who's ''not a woman, not a girl'' — the results float comfortably in the haze of Jackson's 20 year career. If you hate surprises, he's your guy. B-...full text |
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