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Every song on Charleston has been ironed flat, so there are no unseemly natural inflections, something that Rucker doesn't need but which helps make Charleston, SC 1966 a gleaming example of polished, pressed, modern country-pop.
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Rucker's country may be little more than Hootie with fiddles, but that's progress.
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Dec 23, 2010It's all familiar stuff - too familiar - to warrant sustained attention.
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It's hard to imagine that Charleston, SC 1966 won't continue Rucker's hot streak within the country genre, even if the album suggests that he's content to follow the genre's trends rather than set them.