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Freight Train, Alan Jackson’s 16th album, has none of the momentum of a locomotive but all of the reassuring sturdiness of a hulking piece of steel: this is music built for distance, not speed.
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Buoyantly produced, it finds the singer leaning a little too comfortably on the conversational Georgia drawl of his baritone, and the writer coming up a little shy on the sort of detail and wordplay that lifts a cliche.
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Although 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.
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There isn’t anything revelatory or strikingly different here--just the solid, precise craftsmanship of an artist now deep into his career.
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The results float comfortably in the haze of Jackson's 20 year career. If you hate surprises, he's your guy.
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Solid outing from country veteran.
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This isn’t as consistently deeply moving nor as stylistically outside-the-box as his Alison Krauss-produced 2006 collection “Like Red On a Rose,” just down-the-middle country by one of the most dependably rewarding artists that genre has to offer.
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As an Alan Jackson album, Freight Train is so consistently likable that it makes me imagine that he might keep getting better over time, as well.
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The magic in his stoicism is gone too: Freight Train is filled with songs that are mature but not wise.
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UncutIt's far from hip, but unfairly dimissed. [Jun 2010, p.91]
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Jun 28, 2020Álbum sólido, marcante e maravilhoso como sua carreira. Freight Train mostra toda sua origem.