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- Summary: The fifth solo release for the Eagles drummer features guest appearances from Vince Gill, Merle Haggard, Mick Jagger, Jamey Johnson, Alison Krauss, Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride, and Dolly Parton.
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- Record Label: Capitol
- Genre(s): Country, Adult Contemporary, Pop/Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Album Rock, Soft Rock
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| A long long time ago when we were young and pretty, we ruled the world, we stopped the time, we knew it all, we owned this city Running with the... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 7 out of 10
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Mixed: 3 out of 10
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Negative: 0 out of 10
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MojoOct 27, 2015Henley's discourses on ageing and feeling adrift in the modern world are poignant, and, on A Younger Man, painfully well observed. [Dec 2015, p.93]
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Sep 23, 2015A record that's not only easier to enjoy than most of his solo records, but also stronger song for song than many of the early Eagles albums.
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Sep 28, 2015While the contributors are many, Cass County is a Henley vision down to its bones.
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UncutSep 25, 2015One of the missed opportunities of Cass Country is that it isn't especially revelatory about Henley, as a man in late-middle-age taking stock of his life. As a country album, it is perhaps a little too neat, a little too polished. [Nov 2015, p.68]
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Oct 6, 2015The cover of Tift Merritt’s Bramble Rose is affecting too, a stately country shuffle that finds Henley trading verses with Lambert over pedal steel and mandolin, while Jagger blows harmonica and sings like a cat pleading to be let in from the rain. At other times, the album is less successful, particularly when it falls back on weepy honky-tonk tropes.
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Sep 24, 2015The most interesting aspect of this uneven album is Henley’s lyrics: he’s by turns peppery (“Space-age machinery / Stone-age emotions,” sniffs the honky-tonk swingalong No, Thank You) and unsentimental (“Time can be unkind / But I know every wrinkle and earned every line”)--and enjoyably so.
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Oct 2, 2015At the album’s best, Henley conjures up the push-pull between restlessness and contentment in a way that jibes well with the musical interest in the traditions of the genre. At its worst, the album makes me want to throw it out the window, either for the cliches or more often the way the persona of the album comes from a lecturing place of “wisdom”; an I’ve-lived, so I know attitude.
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Positive: 1 out of 2
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Mixed: 1 out of 2
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Dec 14, 2015
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