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Good Time
by Alan Jackson
The 15th album was written entirely by the country singer from Georgia.
| LABEL: |
Arista |
| RELEASE DATE: |
04 March 2008 |
| DISCS: |
1 disc |
| GENRE(S): |
Country |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
88
Los Angeles Times
It's an unusually rich, solidly traditional country record with 17 songs, all written by Jackson, a first in his 18-year recording career.
83
Entertainment Weekly
Jackson composed all 17 tunes this time, and almost every cut is steeped in contentedness. [7 Mar 2008, p.93]
80
All Music Guide
It demonstrates that Jackson is as comfortable with the poppier side of country as he is with the harder stuff, and he can deliver it without seeming as if he's pandering, a feat that is almost as impressive as those generic detours he's taken in the past few years.
80
Boston Globe
This is another Alan Jackson record that will stand the test of time.
80
Hartford Courant
The collection's 17-song canvas is sufficiently broad to hold the spirited, honky tonk-laced jaunt of the title track and the softly pulsating, organ-laced gospel of 'If Jesus Walked the World Today.'
75
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Good Time is a thoughtfully crafted, warmly contemplative survey of contemporary country sounds by one of Nashville's most dependable singers.
70
PopMatters
At over 70 minutes, remarkably long for country music, Good Time has the relaxed tone of an album designed to let Jackson do a little bit of everything, to showcase why he’s a star.
63
The Phoenix
Good Time is old-school in the sense that he’s bypassed Nashville’s army of songwriters to pen all 17 songs himself, and modern in the sense that at least half of the 17 slide by your ears without making much of an impression.
60
Rolling Stone
His finest songs are always his romantic ballads, and the best one here also sounds like the one he wrote the quickest.
50
Slant Magazine
Good Time, however, too often finds Jackson adopting unfortunate trends in modern country music in place of the thoughtful songwriting that characterizes his earlier work.
40
Uncut
17 endurance-defying tracks of gormless, soulless cookie-cutter corporate country, carting woefully trite homilies to smalltown values that leave the listener feeling uneasily like jackson's running from something. [May 2008, p.100]
30
Village Voice
Jackson's songs don't seem uninflected so much as just plain skimpy, but their word-shy inertia suggests a sly detumescence that only the very successful can imagine, let alone turn to the service of their art.
The average user rating for this album is 6.5 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
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