Pemberton Roach
Beauty Killer is a fun, no-frills dance-pop record filled with throbbing house beats, Auto-Tuned vocals, and super-catchy, sexually charged novelty lyrics.
7y
American Classic does not feature Nelson's veteran band, but rather a core group of first-call studio jazz cats including Christian McBride on bass, Joe Sample on piano, and Lewis Nash on drums. The resultant sound is smooth, classy, and subtle -- a sonic horse of a different color from the exquisitely ramshackle earthiness that made Stardust so appealing and unusual.
11y
The record matches original Urban hits with several songs recorded live in the studio.
2mo
This is the real stuff, full of weeping steel guitars and jaunty, Telecaster-driven honky-tonk. Over it all soars the ex-George Jones sideman’s whiskey-soaked voice, adding an extra dollop of rural soul to standards such as “Old Rugged Cross” and “Amazing Grace.”
2mo
The musicianship on Everywhere We Go is superb (typical for Nashville studio cats), yet the players here -- like Chesney -- have little meat in which to sink their teeth and, thus, sound a bit sleepy.
9y
Overall, Songs of Drinking and Rebellion is, although completely cohesive, like a smorgasbord of all the best things about pure, unadulterated indie guitar band-ness and should contain something to appeal to any and all fans of the genre.
1y
The most successful in a string of pop-oriented albums Jimmy Dean released during the early to mid-'60s, The First Thing Ev'ry Morning is perhaps the finest example of Dean's super-smooth, Hank Williams-by-way-of-Lawrence Welk hybrid country style.
6mo
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