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Nov 12, 2020Even among the country music gems already released this year, Stapleton’s feels like a small miracle.
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Nov 13, 2020At Stapleton’s best, sometimes you imagine you’re listening to a mythical “Gregg Allman Sings the Willie Nelson Songbook” album. There are plenty of these moments in his fourth release, “Starting Over.” He has Nelson’s tender touch, but his bluesy side is much louder; his is a part-acoustic, part-stinging approach in which Nelson’s Trigger meets B.B. King’s Lucille.
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Nov 19, 2020Starting Over finds Stapleton not only maintaining his momentum, but also opting for diversity as well. While his influences are as obvious as always, he breaks out of the Southern rock mold he established early on.
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Nov 13, 2020Stapleton could use a bit of Petty's flair -- there's not a lot of humor here, nor are there any flirtations with modern sounds -- but his straight-ahead style nevertheless satisfies on Starting Over.
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UncutNov 10, 2020Chris Stapleton rides roughshod over country music formulas on Starting Over, with assistance from a pair of Heartbreakers. [Dec 2020, p.39]
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Nov 10, 2020Unlike the 2017 pair of albums which were rather short, Stapleton delivers a generous heaping of 14 songs here. He has nothing left to prove, but somehow, he just gets incrementally better as he takes more control and confidence in his own songwriting.
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Nov 24, 2020Stapleton, the artist, isn't beginning, and he does not need to. With Starting Over, he furrows broad terrain with confidence, leading to plenty.
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Nov 23, 2020Stapleton’s writing is solid, but his vocals, arrangements, and instrumentation imbue most of these songs with something remarkable.
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Nov 10, 2020It's a cozy-campfire roots record. [Nov 2020, p.71]
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Nov 14, 2020
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Nov 20, 2021This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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Apr 4, 2021Great album. Very great. So great. Ilove this album. Great album. So great. No other opinion.