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It's raw and emotional. It's freight-train-to-nowhere lonely. It's hard-rockin', no-apologies country music that has traded in its twang for a gravelly growl millions of fans recognize as the voice of Gary Allan. And with LIVING HARD, his latest release from MCA Nashville, Allan once again proves that, though times may change, the thread of truth at the center of his music remains the same. Features the new single "Watching Airplanes".
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Gary Allan has long been the go-to guy for intelligent, edgy country music, informed by the sweaty honky-tonk of the stop-and-sock joints of Bakersfield, CA, and the angry rock & roll of seedy L.A. On Living Hard, he wisely refuses to reprise his previous studio album, 2005?s masterful Tough All Over, which framed the tragic aftermath of his wife?s suicide, even as "Yesterday?s Rain," a memorable lament, might make you think otherwise. Rather, Living Hard largely finds its inspiration in the hipper pop-rock that forged half of Allan's musical altar as a youth: the Eagles ("Like It?s a Bad Thing"), the Beatles ("As Long As You?re Looking Back"), the Rolling Stones ("Living Hard"). This homage is largely found in the instrumental dressings here, as Allan, whose guts-and-growl baritone always telegraphs as much resignation as rebellion, is too creative to salute those sounds outright. Nor is Allan going to corrupt his own authenticity: Co-writing six of the 11 cuts, he rarely rises above the melancholia that perpetually paints him as a man reeling from the jaw-breaking punch of fate that comes out of nowhere, best exemplified in the dazed glaze of "Watching Airplanes" and the brilliant barstool Zen of "Half of My Mistakes." But when he comes up for air, Allan sometimes does so with comic results. On "Wrecking Ball," a sexy roadhouse rocker hammered home on junkyard guitar, he tangles with the wrong woman, to cyclonic end: "She?s a tornado / I?m a trailer house / That girl?s a hurricane in a dress." Allan may be burning the candle at both ends, but on this song and elsewhere, he?s just as seduced by the mystery of his predicament as the rest of us. --Alanna Nash
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Pleasantly Surprised -  |
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This was one of those purchases you buy for the hit single, because you just have to have it, and are pleasantly surprised how wonderful the entire album is! |
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just like garry's other albums all excellent this guy is just so brilliant i would recomend this album anytime |
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great - |
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I bought Gary Allan Livig Hard and i have plays it so many times i just love his voice |
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Gary Allan best voice in Country-Highly Underated -  |
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Gary Allan is the best voice in all of Country Music and a vast range.
Gary has complete control of his voice and his phrasing is marvelous. I do not think that he has ever gotten the full recognition that he should have. He will get to about a #9 on the Country hit parade and hold that level for about a month and then disappear overnite. This is a different release from those of his past. No one song has a strong identity. I wanted to like this as much as all of his CD's but I could not (And I have them all). I think that he many times releases a CD of songs that he likes and likes to sing but doesn't always totally include a hook that might make it more commercially viable. I believe that he stays TRUE to his music and how can you fault him for that when its all said and done. I am sorry Gary.. I just can't get into it like I always do. |
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good but not great -  |
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it was a good cd but not one of the best there are about two to three songs on there that are really good.. |
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