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Blake Shelton's new six-song album, Hillbilly Bone, may be a marketing and sales experiment by Warner Bros. Records, but fans of the Oklahoman artist won't be disappointed.
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it's a formula contemporary country chartmaker: highly compressed dual lead guitars, layered acoustic guitars, good-time honky tonk lyrics, and big rocking drums. It’s a good-natured dig at city folks, and you can’t help but like Shelton, no matter how many cliché’s he spews.
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The choice to buck traditional album cycles with this solid if unspectacular six-song EP is straight-up market savvy.
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To Shelton's credit, he seems to have taken a cue from his girlfriend, Miranda Lambert, on how to consider the overall thematic coherence of an album: Even the weaker songs on the record include some details of rural living and a genuine wittiness that attempt to put some meat on this Bone.
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Positive: 4 out of 14
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Mixed: 2 out of 14
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Negative: 8 out of 14
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Jan 5, 2022Fabulous, if not good, this album is not as interesting as its previous album, but this time it's still "pretty good".