Jet Black and Jealous
| Eli Young BandJet Black and Jealous
Jet Black & Jealous is an album by American country music band Eli Young Band. It was released on September 16, 2008 by Universal South. The album's first single, "When It Rains", peaked at #34 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. A second single, "Always the Love Songs", was released to country radio in September 2008, and debuted at #60 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, ultimately peaking at #11. Originally written by New Orleans-born songwriter Paul Sanchez, the song "Jet Black & Jealous" was re-written for the Eli Young Band by Scooter Carusoe.-Wikipedia
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AllMusic
This isn't country music in the tractor-driving, American flag-waving sense; it's country music with pop production and rock muscle, and the album sounds its strongest whenever it's occupying the three-way intersection between those genres.
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Country Standard Time
. . . the Eli Young Band mixes country with smart production to come up with an album that goes down smooth, but doesn't bite. That may not be for all listeners: the band's producers seem to have forsworn grit for polish, when a little more letting loose would - at least on some parts of the record - have been welcome.
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Country Universe
Eli Young Band will likely spend the rest of their career trying to achieve that hallowed middle ground, and it will be interesting to see whether they can manage to do so on future releases – but for the moment, we have Jet Black & Jealous: the sound of a promising young act weighing its options.
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Collectors' Choice Music
. . . eight years spent honing it's sound while building to the release of it's first national album. The blend of sonic exuberance and personal maturity is just one of the things that makes the Eli Young Band and their Universal Republic/Universal Records South debut, JET BLACK & JEALOUS, such an intriguing musical masterpiece.
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Oldies.com
Led by singer Mike Eli and guitarist James Young, the band pounds out solid country-rock that strikes a balance between grit and gloss for a warm and organic sound that's still unfailingly radio-ready.
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Red Dirt Report
2/12/2010 I have to say, that in retrospect, this is a really good album.
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Red Dirt Report
11/7/2008. the rest of EYB's newest album is pleasant but unremarkable, kind of like a bland Christian rock band that has one radio hit and sort of fades away. I know Eli Young Band have it in them to craft a really interesting and solid Texas music album. Unfortunately, Jet Black & Jealous isn't it.
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GALLEYWINTER
This record has the potential to take EYB to that next level they crave. I’m not sure if country radio will jump behind the album as quickly as some pop stations. . . . . Mike Wrucke has done a fantastic job of producing an album that accentuates EYB’s positives, while straddling the line between modern country and pop seamlessly. Jet Black and Jealous is an album that achieves what it set out to do.
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RoughStock
With “Jet Black & Jealous” the Eli Young Band presents themselves as one of the best newcomers to mainstream country music. With the steady production hands of Mike Wrucke (Miranda Lambert), the album manages to retain the roots rock vibe of Texas country with the more mainstream sound of contemporary country music.
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The Oklahoman
Country radio should welcome a band that writes its own songs, plays its own instruments and records a fine album.
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The Nashville Sound
One of the very best things about reviewing new music is the new gem that you find unexpectedly. It’s like the prize at the bottom of a Cracker Jacks box. Jet Black and Jealous by the Eli Young Band is that prize. It’s a full album filled with a collection of songs, all able to stand strongly on their own, but pure joy to listen together as one. A definite two-thumb-upper…
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Sounds of the South
With “Jet Black & Jealous”, the Eli Young Band has something like a wonderful synthesis from Wade Bowenand Sister Hazel therefore comes, her undisputed strongest work, whereby one wonders whether there is still room for improvement in the future. But again we just suspect that this conspiratorial Eli Young band will pull a lot of new song trumps up its sleeve again next time. These guys are in a class of their own!
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