WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY
| Luke Bryan
WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY
What Makes You Country is the sixth studio album by American singer Luke Bryan. It was released on December 8, 2017 via Capitol Records Nashville. The album includes the singles "Light It Up", "Most People Are Good" and "Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset".-Wikipedia
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Variety
There’s enough enduring appeal in the best of the sexier songs — especially on several tracks where a rhythm banjo kicks in as a bed for the electric guitars — that it’s hard to make too strenuous an argument against still letting Luke be Luke.
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The Guardian
The reigning king of country returns with more bulletproof tracks about drinking, hunting, driving trucks and babes in Daisy Dukes
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Rolling Stone
Country superstar Luke Bryan’s sixth album What Makes You Country opens with the title track, a stomping Southern rock assertion of downhome cred that says, essentially, country is an expression
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Paste Magazine
Only time will tell if Bryan can repeat his impressive feat, but his new album What Makes You Country has no shortage of potential hits.
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Newsy
Trying to unify through kind-hearted, nice country.
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Sounds Like Country
What Makes You Country features 15 versatile tracks that vary from love and loss to the power of a song and dreaming big.
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Spectrum Culture
Luke Bryan exists to sell records and write reliably catchy pop tunes in the country music vein.
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Country Exclusive
It’s not great, it’s not terrible, it just exists. The vast majority of it is just kind of forgettable.
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Digital Journal
There is a lot of variety on this new project, and there is something in it for everybody. A must for all fans of contemporary country music.
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Herald Standard
With “What Makes You Country,” Luke Bryan follows 2015’s “Kill the Lights” by covering familiar territory with another set of relatable songs about navigating relationships, indulging in a few cold ones and living life in a way that makes for a satisfying country song.
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All Music
When it comes to the ballads, though, or the numerous laid-back pop numbers, Bryan demonstrates that familiar, friendly charm, and that helps sell productions that are otherwise trying a little too hard to make him sound a little less cozy.
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Cryptic Rock
In truth, Bryan is always catchy, always a Country dream of dance-able licks and simple, sing-along lyrics.
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Country Standard Time
None of the songs here are disastrous - Bryan is far too experienced to make an unsafe choice like that. Some of them would be great fodder for debating whether he's genuinely singing to his tribe or running through another paint-by-numbers.
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Gulf News Music
What Makes You Country feels a natural extension of 2015’s Kill the Lights and is filled with tunes you’ll be stomping along with long before they’ve even finished their first spin.
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Cleveland.com
Truthfully, there's still too much rock 'n' roll, too much screaming guitar vs. pedal steel, throughout the album. But the sense is that that is a compromise from a man who knows both what sells AND where he wants to go with his music in the future.
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Sputnik Music
Despite what the album title suggests, Luke Bryan doesn't know much about actually being country.
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Entertainment Focus
What Makes You Country is a little bit of a step back from Bryan. There are great moments on the record and everything Bryan does is always worth a listen, but he falls into old habits a little too often.
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ROUGHTSTOCK
It remains to be seen if What Makes You Country will become the best recording of his career but it certainly is something fans new and old will find more than enough to like on it.
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The Musical Hype
Country music superstar Luke Bryan returns with an enjoyable, well-rounded 6th studio album in ‘What Makes You Country.’ Nothing brand-new, but consistent.
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Penn State Comm Radio
Overall, What Makes You Country is an enjoyable listen but doesn't have any career-altering moments for Bryan. He has mastered being a catchy, sing-along country superstar.
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