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Jan 24, 2012Overall, though the lyric content is among the best on a Tim McGraw album to date.
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Jan 23, 2012Emotional Traffic is McGraw's most ambitious offering to date--the credits list is enormous and the range of styles on display is wide. That said, its balance is impeccable.
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Jan 23, 2012Should country purists fret? Nah. "Touchdown Jesus" lives up to its down-home promise.
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Jan 24, 2012Bursting with enough potential singles to suggest that the most-played male artist of the last decade will continue to dominate country radio.
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Jan 24, 2012Strong storytelling redeems cheesy stuff like "Touchdown Jesus," as does the music, a savvy mix of down-home twang, pop tunefulness and rock heft.
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Jan 23, 2012Mr. McGraw has never sounded this casual. It doesn't suit him.
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Jan 24, 2012Emotional Traffic isn't dramatically better, worse or all that different from what he's been doing since the beginning.
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Jan 31, 2012Emotional Traffic only works in its moments of restraint and relative good taste, and those are exceedingly rare.
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UncutApr 6, 2012Emotional Traffic contains a few soppy homilies to domesticity, a transparent bid for a Super Bowl halftime booking, and a great many reasons to listen to the equally polished, but vastly wittier, Brad Paisley. [May 2012, p.78]