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Oct 8, 2014Mr. Aldean’s shtick is effective--his sturdy voice, paired with production that has more in common with sensual 1980s hard rock than modern country, makes for uncommonly brawny country music.
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Oct 8, 2014This casual, almost steely, assurance is appealing and even if the record goes on far too long at 15 tracks (18 in editions exclusive to certain retailers), this focus coalesces Old Boots, New Dirt, turning it into one of his best records.
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Oct 8, 2014Jason Aldean's Old Boots, New Dirt, the singer's sixth studio album is a mixture of the party songs he has become known for--but also shows a little bit more of an emotional and sensual side than listeners might be accustomed to.
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Oct 8, 2014All ambition and no boldness, a solidly constructed modern country album without much in the way of inspiration.
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Oct 30, 2014Much of the rest of the album features ho-hum mid-tempos and ballads that don’t move the meter much in either direction.
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Oct 15, 2014Even his big, guitar-driven songs owe as much to Nickelback as to Nashville – if the pedal steel on ''Two Night Town'' sounds forlorn, maybe that's because it’s competing for attention with gravelly alt-rock distortion.
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Oct 14, 2014The desperation of the drinking and the narcissistic banality of the lyrics are matched by songs that have long guitar solos, or places where the bands play loudly against Aldean’s voice--which is often flat, and rarely works enough energy to move past a laconic speech song.
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