Rebel Soul.
| Kid Rock
Rebel Soul.
Rebel Soul is the ninth studio album by American musician Kid Rock and his final to be released with Atlantic Records. The album was released on November 19, 2012. The album was self-produced by Kid Rock himself. It is his first since 2007's Rock N Roll Jesus to feature his backing band Twisted Brown Trucker after being absent on 2010's Born Free.[3] "Redneck Paradise" was written by The Young Brothers in 2007; they sent it to Kid Rock's representatives hoping he would use the song. - wikipedia
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Spill Magazine
There’s a great deal of harmony and maturity hidden in this recording.
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SoCalMusic
After listening to Rock’s back catalog and recalling some childhood memories, “Rebel Soul” is far form anything like his earlier works like “Devil Without A Cause” (1998).
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SLANT
It's a very safe affair, full of platitudes and conspicuous all-American gestures.
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Entertainment
Rebel Soul lives and dies by his yarn-spinning.
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Boston Globe
Throughout the album, Rock, who clearly understands his vocal limitations, employs some dynamite backup singers who enliven, fill out, and otherwise beautify their surroundings nicely.
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ALL MUSIC
Rebel Soul is appropriately rebellious and conservative, a dose of old-time rock & roll at a time when the style is starting to fade.
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sputnik music
a good, fun listen with some excellent songwriting.
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The New York Times
Kid Rock is an amateurish singer, but over the last few years his unsteady squeal has been become burnished and is now credible.
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RollingStone
Rebel Soul makes that world hotter – but also warmer.
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AV/MUSIC
And it’s a whole lot of uneven songs crammed into an overlong album that tries hard to please the fickle country/rock-’n’-roll/hip-hop audience—but not too hard, because that’s not Kid Rock’s style.
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POP! BLERD
you might actually enjoy Rebel Soul. He’s had enough time to study his inspiration that he can put out an album that sounds utterly unoriginal and yet is entirely identifiable as Kid Rock. Debate the artistic merit all you like, but on his terms, I can only imagine that that’s how you define success.
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Michigan Live
Kid Rock covers all genres, shows career growth with a 'Rebel Soul'
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Ultimate Guitar
On an impression standpoint, my first one is that this album was very well thought out from beginning to end. Though I wish there was less flat southern rock, Kid Rock obviously knew what he wanted on this record and delivered a refreshing mix of rock, southern, and rap all inside a Ted Nugent like republican, redneck paradise.
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LOUDER
But for the most part, Rebel Soul seems to celebrate rock’n’roll itself as the heart of America’s power. Like many of the brightest guys, Kid Rock’s spent a lot of his career playing dumb, and here’s a welcome glimpse of the musical brain underneath.
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RUKUS
Rebel Soul starts off decent enough with some catchy, blues tracks, but the album never really progresses and the sound quickly starts to grow old. While the last two tracks are rather impressive and not something one would expect on a Kid Rock album, I still think it may be time for Kid Rock to either advance to a new sound or return to his rap/rock roots.
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Writer Tools
The album is a wonderful blend of several musical genres that can appeal to many people who enjoy varied types of music.
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Entertainment
Rebel Soul lives and dies by his yarn-spinning — when he abandons personal flourishes in favor of toasting to domestic beer and working-class honeys, the record’s charm dissipates like so much smoke at the cliché mill.
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Los Angeles Times
“Rebel Soul,” he is vice and virtue, city and country, a Dixie flag-waving resident of his own Redneck Paradise, and a Detroiter with a half-black son and an encyclopedic knowledge of rap.
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BlogKitch
If you haven’t heard Kid Rock since the 1990s or early 2000s, give his new album a spin. It will change your perception of him completely.
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Little by Listen
I weirdly found myself listening to the album in the car quite a bit the past week, and it is worth a spin.
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The Washington Times
Kid Rock may be getting older, but he still isn’t interested in growing up. On “Rebel Soul,” the 40-something rocker indulges his frat-boy whims like a college undergrad, singing about women, beer, guns and hot tubs in a voice that’s as rough as a Sunday morning hangover.
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Under the Gun Review
The problem I have with this album is this: it doesn’t really seem like Kid Rock. This man has built his career around a signature image that is in no way, shape or form being represented in this readjustment of sound.
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God is in the TV
The album lacks any spark of originality or contemporary leaning, as you’d probably expect, so Bummer Album of the Week it is.
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Montreal Gazette
Unfortunately, there’s very little on this workmanlike set you haven’t heard a million times. Four-on-the-floor backbeats, handclaps, pounding piano and guitar fills, wailing solos and standard-issue, beer-soaked chord progressions all share the stage, in the service of Rock’s always-impressive pipes.
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Sounds-of-the-South
"Not your greatest record ever made, but it's pretty f ****** good!"
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O Canada
most of these songs will be too forgettable to grab their hearts as well.
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Jake's Take
Rebel Soul is the best rock and roll album of the year!
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