Like Red on a Rose
| Alan Jackson
Like Red on a Rose
Like Red on a Rose is the fourteenth studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson. It was released on September 26, 2006. The album produced two singles, the title track and "A Woman's Love", which respectively reached numbers 15 and 5 on the Hot Country Songs charts.-Wikipedia
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Slant Magazine
October 9, 2006. Originally intended to be a bluegrass album . . . , Like Red on a Rose, Alan Jackson’s first recording with Alison Krauss as his producer, is, instead, an album of sophisticated, mellow adult pop.
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PopMatters
October 17, 2006. . . . Like Red on a Rose certainly seems to be a testament to the almost lost art of growing old gracefully together.
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AllMusic
This is a smoky, intimate record; it's romantic, to be sure, but not seductive -- instead, it's the sound of longtime love, the sound of happiness. Which is hardly the same thing as a bright, sunny record, since Like Red on a Rose is anything but that.
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My Kind of Country
May 25, 2010. Like Red On A Rose stands out from the pack of Jackson albums then as a unique and beautiful album of ballads and love songs with a wonderful mix of thoughtful, tender and reflective interpretations of songs by several writers.
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Country Standard Time
We've seen it before; superstar male country artist decides to break out of his shell and try something different. This time, it's Alan Jackson. The result? It's a compelling listen, yet that ton of bricks never quite falls.
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Entertainment
September 22, 2006. With 2004’s What I Do, honky-tonk hero Alan Jackson seemed to be coasting a bit. No one could say that about this dramatic departure, Like Red on a Rose, a startlingly good all-ballads set that’s downright bold in its gentility and his best yet.
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Cleveland Scene
November 29, 2006. With 15 songs one could even call literate -- in contrast to so much from the Music City songwriting factory -- this mature set transcends genre, becoming fine American popular music.
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The New York Times
September 28, 2006. “Like Red on a Rose” is a mellow, restless CD with hints of everything from soft rock to gospel.
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No Depression
November 1, 2006. Honesty may be Jackson’s credo, but the best that can be said of Like Red On A Rose is that it was an honest, colossal train wreck.
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DosGibbys.com
October 24, 2006. "Rose" is a blues album, if the definition can be expanded to a collection of songs that largely ooze contentment, gratitude and love, leavened by the wisdom of how fragile all of that can be.
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Oklahoma Gazette
October 12, 2006. So melancholy and introspective as to be almost emotionally monochromatic, Alan Jackson's brooding "Like Red on a Rose" is an impressive left turn for the neo-traditionalist Nashville veteran, dialing down the sunshine streaking hits like "Chattahoochee" and infusing his evocative baritone with an almost palpable sense of pain.
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CBS News BuzzCuts: New Music
September 26, 2006. In the biggest departure of his career, the longtime traditionalist moves away from country instrumentation to focus on smooth adult-contemporary ballads, many about aging and love between a mature couple with a long history.
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