Under the Influence
| Alan Jackson
Under the Influence
Under the Influence is the eighth studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson. It was released on October 26, 1999, and features covers of other country artists' material. Three singles were released from Under the Influence; "Pop a Top", "The Blues Man", and "It Must Be Love", which respectively reached No. 6, No. 37, and No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs charts. "My Own Kind of Hat", "Margaritaville" and "She Just Started Liking Cheatin' Songs" also entered the lower regions of the charts from unsolicited airplay.-Wikipedia
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My Kind of Country
May 16, 2010. It’s a telling look into the music and songs that Alan Jackson would consider personal favorites and even though this is a collection of covers, the album isn’t really all that different from Jackson’s own studio albums, proving that he has held the banner for traditional country high throughout his career.
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AllMusic
Anyone who doubts Alan Jackson's roots as a honky tonk singer should turn to Under the Influences, his heartfelt salute to his favorite country singers. According to his self-penned liner notes, Jackson has "always wanted to do this album," and that's evident from the songs he chose to cover.
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Entertainment
October 29, 1999. In assembling these fine covers (”The Way I Am,” ”She Just Started Liking Cheatin’ Songs”), he updates classics with poignant readings and eloquent instrumental solos, finding the poetry in country’s forgotten gems.
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Rolling Stone
February 3, 2000. . . . Alan Jackson has been Nineties Nashville's smartest and sanest classicist; his music symbolizes his audience's love of bright new thrills and soulful old records. It's those old records that Jackson lavishes attention on throughout Under the Influence, a group of twelve vintage tunes that comprise a collection of what he calls "just songs that I like."
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No Depression
January 1, 2000. Alan Jackson’s Under The Influence may be the most rebellious mainstream country album of the year. Not because it does anything particularly new, though; in fact, it does quite the opposite. Consisting entirely of covers of old country songs, Under The Influence flies in the face of current fashion by daring to feature music that is explicitly, unabashedly, sometimes even unreconstructedly country.
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Country Standard Time
Given Jackson's track record you expect him to pick quality songs and to sing them well, and that's exactly what you get.
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Robert Christgau
Under the Influence [Arista, 1999] Dud.
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