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  • Summary: Originally completed in 2010, the last album for the country singer on Curb Records features Ne-Yo as a guest.
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Felt Good on My Lips
Said her name was a hand me down name From the side of a family that long ago came Over here on a boat from somewhere in Spain Sounded to me just a... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Positive: 5 out of 9
  2. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. Jan 24, 2012
    80
    Overall, though the lyric content is among the best on a Tim McGraw album to date.
  2. Jan 23, 2012
    80
    Emotional Traffic is McGraw's most ambitious offering to date--the credits list is enormous and the range of styles on display is wide. That said, its balance is impeccable.
  3. 75
    Should country purists fret? Nah. "Touchdown Jesus" lives up to its down-home promise.
  4. Jan 24, 2012
    70
    Strong storytelling redeems cheesy stuff like "Touchdown Jesus," as does the music, a savvy mix of down-home twang, pop tunefulness and rock heft.
  5. Jan 23, 2012
    60
    Mr. McGraw has never sounded this casual. It doesn't suit him.
  6. Jan 24, 2012
    50
    Emotional Traffic isn't dramatically better, worse or all that different from what he's been doing since the beginning.
  7. Uncut
    Apr 6, 2012
    20
    Emotional Traffic contains a few soppy homilies to domesticity, a transparent bid for a Super Bowl halftime booking, and a great many reasons to listen to the equally polished, but vastly wittier, Brad Paisley. [May 2012, p.78]

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