Freight Train
| Alan Jackson
Freight Train
Freight Train is the sixteenth studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson. It was released on March 30, 2010. The album's first single, "It's Just That Way", was released on January 4, 2010.-Wikipedia
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BBC Music - Review
March 29, 2010. Freight Train comes straight down the rails of a much-loved tradition, the latest through traffic on a journey that has earned this self-effacing southerner an enviable reputation.
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PopMatters
March 30, 2010. Of 2010’s mainstream, will-sell-big country albums, so far Freight Train is the one most likely to be called “traditionalist” in every review.
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AllMusic
Freight Train, Alan Jackson’s 16th album, has none of the momentum of a locomotive but all of the reassuring sturdiness of a hulking piece of steel: this is music built for distance, not speed.
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My Kind of Country
March 31, 2010. Overall, this is a definite return to form for Alan, and one of the best major label releases in the last couple of years.
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Country Standard Time
Jackson may not be moving at the speed of a freight train - he never has and never will because he eschews the country gone pop mindset of his peers, where louder somewhat equals better (thanks once again producer Keith Stegall) - but no worries. It's what's on board that matter. Jackson carries this load of nuggets just fine.
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Los Angeles Times
April 6, 2010. This isn’t as consistently deeply moving nor as stylistically outside-the-box as his Alison Krauss-produced 2006 collection “Like Red On a Rose,” just down-the-middle country by one of the most dependably rewarding artists that genre has to offer.
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The Boston Globe
March 29, 2010. There isn’t anything revelatory or strikingly different here — just the solid, precise craftsmanship of an artist now deep into his career.
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Billboard
March 19, 2010. "Freight Train," opens with the blue-collar tribute "Hard Hat and a Hammer," which could be a giant radio hit,. . . . He duets with Lee Ann Womack on Vern Gosdin's 1977 weeper, "Til the End," and recruits bluegrass queen Rhonda Vincent for harmony on three tracks, including the haunting, lovely "Every Now and Then." And Jackson combines genuine emotion with a clever twist on "Tail Lights Blue."
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RoughStock
March 30, 2010. While many artists are always constantly changing their sound, Alan remains true to what made him a star in the first place. Freight Train may not win Alan many new fans but it’s unlikely to lose him any and in an era when the genre is getting more rock-n-roll and pop, Alan is remarkably retro or ‘traditional’ here.
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Entertainment
March 24, 2010. Nashville’s a different town than it was in the ’90s, but to borrow one of Freight Train‘s many hackneyed metaphors, Alan Jackson remains predictable as the sunrise every morning.
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Apple Music
His arrangements remain tasteful and his songwriting is far more heartfelt and subtle than many of the professional songwriters who aim for the country charts. This genuine quality comes across throughout his many albums and is consistently present on tracks such as the piano ballad “Every Now and Then,” . . . .
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The New York Times
March 28, 2010. . . . “Freight Train” is filled with songs that are mature but not wise. Mr. Jackson wrote most of them, and as a songwriter he favors conventional, ascetic structures and plainspoken declarations, . . . .
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SMNW
May 7, 2010. Alan Jackson’s new CD, Freight Train, is a great CD for anyone who loves country music. Compared to Jackson’s 2008 album, Good Time, this album is more mellow.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
March 29, 2010. The 12 songs mostly find him in a laid-back groove befitting the 51-year-old’s laconic style. “Freight Train” delivers wise lyrics about love, family, loss and familiar comforts set to down-home melodies that lope along with natural ease.
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The West Australian
April 16, 2010. Considering Jackson's fabulous voice, lyrical skill and classy band, Freight Train is consistently banal and soulless.
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ABC11 Archive
April 1, 2010. From Stuart Duncan and Andy Leftwich's harmonized fiddle intro to "Hard Hat and a Hammer," to Paul Franklin's pedal steel denouement to close out "The Best Keeps Getting Better," the album is very much traditional country.
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