Uncaged
| Zac Brown Band
Uncaged
Uncaged is the third studio album by Zac Brown Band. It was released on July 10, 2012. The album's lead single, "The Wind" was released on June 6, 2012. The album won Best Country Album at the 2013 Grammy Awards. -- Wikipedia
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Think Christian
On Uncaged, the Zac Brown Band burnishes their image as consummate musicians and cultural populists who mean well, but my appreciation for them as a thoughtful, spiritually minded group has taken a hit. They can do better though, and I suspect they will.
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VOA
'Uncaged' billed as Zac Brown band's best album yet.
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Top country
Over and above these few missteps, Uncaged will undoubtedly continue to build on Zac Brown Band’s already admirable reputation – and not just for making mighty fine music.
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Daily News
There's a fine line between taking it easy and becoming a bore - and the Zac Brown Band keeps stumbling across it.
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Bored and Dangerous Blog
But Uncaged immediately improves with the title track. It’s just as polished and impeccable, but it has so much more life to it.
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Concert Tour
In any case, this is a record that will appeal to those who want a simple, passive experience with music, or just a good time
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Miller Time Music Spot
I must say I had high expectations for this album before I even listened to it - and it surpassed those expectations and more.
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Newsday
A winner.
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Stagedive Reviews
A lot of tracks on 'Uncaged' are some of my favorite ZBB tracks of all time and could become my favorite country songs of all time.
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Oregon Live
But the fun of "Uncaged" is found in its surprises and its unwillingness to stick to script.
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Sputnik Music
Uncaged expands the band's musical horizons, becoming their best effort yet.
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Natfinn
Zac Brown Band has a fine, thoughtful studio release.
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Community Voices
It is possible to make modern, commercial quality music with wide appeal, music not focus-grouped.
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Kind of Country
While I prefer The Foundation and You Get What You Give, Uncaged has grown on me with repeated listenings and there is more than enough here to keep Zac Brown Band fans satisfied.
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Country Exclusive
This is one of the best country records to have graced our presence in the past ten years, and maybe the best one out of the mainstream in that time frame.
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All Music
They're confident, assured, even playful, having fun bending the rules and blurring boundaries, eager to please but never pandering.
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Entertainment Weekly
Uncaged, the group’s fifth album, isn’t so much a folksy jam-band opus as a savvy industry professional’s idea of what that should sound like. Which isn’t always a bad thing.
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Country Standard Time
The main trouble with "Uncaged" is that the listener sits and waits for something as good as Whatever It Is or Free, but that pivotal moment never arrives. This leaves "Uncaged" more than a little underwhelming.
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American Songwriter
More than anything, Uncaged is an album that proves a successful country artist really can have it all.
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LA Times
The Zac Brown Band aims mighty hard to please, in its sweat-drenched shows and to a large degree on the group’s first two albums. That makes the more relaxed tone of “Uncaged,” the southern rock outfit’s third studio outing, modestly refreshing.
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Vox Magazine
Not only will you fall in love with Uncaged upon first listen, it'll slowly grow on you.
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Sounds like Nashville
The great thing about Zac Brown Band is that every time you listen to their album, you discover something new — either a new sound or a hidden meaning of a lyric that you didn’t think about before — and that’s what makes a great country album.
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Slant Magazine
There’s something to be said for an album that’s such a refreshing and clean break from what has become country music’s rather depressing norm.
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RollingStone
The band's third LP, Uncaged, sounds, well, caged: plenty of polite back-porch bluegrass picking, antiseptic mountain harmonies, a pair of low calorie attempts at Caribbean lilt with mushily sentimental lyrics about drifting like the river and the wind.
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The New York Times
For the first time the group feels polished, bright and concise, not necessarily assets when it comes to this band’s skill set.
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Consequence of Sound
The band makes their mark with Uncaged by proving that country often sounds the most like itself when borrowing, toying, and playing around with unexpected sounds, noises, and influences.
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Taste of Country
If they weren't so talented, this project would fall apart long before the title-track. Yet somehow, it doesn't.
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