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Feb 25, 2014It's a sturdy, often absorbing record from a singer who is determined to be in it for the long haul.
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Mar 19, 2014There are moments of levity on Riser, like the fratboy-ish “Pretty Girls” and “Drunk on a Plane,” but those songs betray what works so well everywhere else on the record.
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Feb 25, 2014Those elements [musicianship, emotional integrity, and hard work] again make themselves known on his stirring seventh album, Riser.
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Feb 25, 2014The collection really soars when it blends the personal and the spiritual.
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Entertainment WeeklyFeb 26, 2014With his honeyed voice and weirdly anthropological eye--he seems to study "Pretty Girls" holding "tall boys" and "Back Porch" partying from afar--Bentley is Brawny Man bland. [28 Feb 2014, p.71]
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Mar 31, 2014Riser comes close to being it, but I would still like an EP that sketches a narrative as adroitly as those six songs put together do.
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Feb 25, 2014Bentley can't quite get away from his inner bro.
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Feb 25, 2014He’s deliberate in his choice of songwriters, including Shane McAnally and Josh Kear, who provide some of the better songs on this hit-or-miss album.
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