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After 20 years and 50 million album sales, Alan Jackson stands for just about everything that makes people huffy about mainstream country: pedal steel guitar, oom-pah bass lines, check-shirt fables and barefaced sentimentality.
Listen to a Jackson song, though, and you’re hearing something that tells millions of ‘ordinary’ Americans about themselves. And who thinks that’s easy? Freight Train comes straight down the rails of a much-loved tradition, the latest through traffic on a journey that has earned this self-effacing southerner an enviable reputation.
Long after the great age of songwriting in New York and Los Angeles, Nashville might be the last holdout for the craft of American music. And, hitting town with a head full of Hank Williams and Merle Haggard in 1986, Jackson has made himself the craftsman others dream of emulating.
His successful resistance to the pop/rock postures of superstars like Garth Brooks and Shania Twain is one of the reasons country has weathered a diversion that threatened to derail it altogether. So it’s no pleasure to report that this contract-fulfilling final album, concluding Jackson’s two decades with Arista Nashville, isn’t going to create any converts.
Buoyantly produced, it finds the singer leaning a little too comfortably on the conversational Georgia drawl of his baritone, and the writer coming up a little shy on the sort of detail and wordplay that lifts a cliché. True Love Is a Golden Ring’s platitudes are plain slack from the man who once wrote Three Minute Positive Not Too Country Up-Tempo Love Song.
Four songs at the heart of the album sound like singles (including the personable Tail Lights Blue, with its Jackson-esque “They should’ve made ‘I can’t stay’/ Sound like ‘I love you’” lyric), but they’re all from other writers. The eight originals compare poorly to the 17 on 2008’s Good Time, and it’s tempting to imagine some musical nuggets have been stowed away for the other side of the contractual crossroads.
In 2009 Jackson turned 50 and put his Nashville mansion up for sale. Freight Train will pump up the career numbers, but it sounds like time for a change. --Ninian Dunnett
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1-Hard Hat And A Hammer 2-Every Now And Then 3-After 4-It's Just That Way 5-Freight Train 6-Taillights Blue 7-I Get Used To This Lovin' Thing 8-Till The End (& LEE ANN WOMACK) 9-That's Where I Belong 10-Big Green Eyes 11-True Love Is A Golden Ring 12-The Best Keeps Getting Better (2010/SONY) 12 tracks (43:38) incl."It's Just That Way", "Tail Lights Blue" & "That's Where I Belong"
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Having lived with Jackson's previous album for the last two years, I was tempted to award this CD four and a half stars rather than five, simply because "Good Time" was such a fantastic album. But that wouldn't be fair, cos this too is a superb collection!
having listened to it a couple of times now I can say I've enjoyed all 12 tracks but it's the central block of four songs - the title track, "Tail Lights Blue", "Lovin' Thing", and "Til the End" - which really make it stand out from the crowd. I love the way Jackson lets the musicians shine, as he does on "Freight Train", with lots of really tasty instrumental pieces. "Lovin' Thing" sounds like a cross between "Chattahoochee" and one of those early Johnny Cash "boom-chicka-boom" songs and features great guitar. "Tail Lights Blue" is the big 'missing you' song and will make a great single. Finally the big duet with Lee Ann Womack on a Vern Gosdin cover, "Til The End", and probably the best track on the album. A nice mix of fiddle and steel guitar make for a classic country sound, with Womack sounding possibly the best I've ever heard her.
Another great album - thanks Alan!!
having listened to it a couple of times now I can say I've enjoyed all 12 tracks but it's the central block of four songs - the title track, "Tail Lights Blue", "Lovin' Thing", and "Til the End" - which really make it stand out from the crowd. I love the way Jackson lets the musicians shine, as he does on "Freight Train", with lots of really tasty instrumental pieces. "Lovin' Thing" sounds like a cross between "Chattahoochee" and one of those early Johnny Cash "boom-chicka-boom" songs and features great guitar. "Tail Lights Blue" is the big 'missing you' song and will make a great single. Finally the big duet with Lee Ann Womack on a Vern Gosdin cover, "Til The End", and probably the best track on the album. A nice mix of fiddle and steel guitar make for a classic country sound, with Womack sounding possibly the best I've ever heard her.
Another great album - thanks Alan!!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Alan Jackson is a country singer! He doesn't sing country pop or Nash Vegas or Countrypolitan. He sings traditional country music with a modern twist and he writes much of his own material including eight of the songs on this album. It's his ear for a hook that makes so many of his albums irresistable.
Soft and sentimental they may be but songs like "After 17", "Every Now And Then", "Big Green Eyes" and "True Love Is A Golden Ring" are beautifully crafted and typical of Jackson's ability to offer re-assurance that all is well with this world.
But he has chosen his covers well too and his duet with Lee Ann Womack on Vern Gosdin's "Till The End" with its insistent steel guitar is one of the highlights of the album. His driving version of Fred Eaglesmith's title track is a powerful contrast to the album's predominant ballads.
Alan Jackson never disappoints. Bass, fiddle, mandolin, steel guitar, piano, Hammond B3, banjo, wurlitzer and Jackson's warm, country voice combine to deliver another album that will delight his fans and probably create some new ones too.
Soft and sentimental they may be but songs like "After 17", "Every Now And Then", "Big Green Eyes" and "True Love Is A Golden Ring" are beautifully crafted and typical of Jackson's ability to offer re-assurance that all is well with this world.
But he has chosen his covers well too and his duet with Lee Ann Womack on Vern Gosdin's "Till The End" with its insistent steel guitar is one of the highlights of the album. His driving version of Fred Eaglesmith's title track is a powerful contrast to the album's predominant ballads.
Alan Jackson never disappoints. Bass, fiddle, mandolin, steel guitar, piano, Hammond B3, banjo, wurlitzer and Jackson's warm, country voice combine to deliver another album that will delight his fans and probably create some new ones too.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Hi this is a GREAT ALBUM, this is Alan at his best :-D He has returned to his former style of music, I have to say this is why I became a BIG Alan Jackson fan ...... If you are a long time fan of A J'S, you are gonna love this album, he has returned to his former style of singing/playing. In my view this is the style A.J is known for & what made him the big time singer that he became. This Album is a must for old time style A. J fans.......
Hey Alan continue to sing the way you Sing best !!!! .....
Hey Alan continue to sing the way you Sing best !!!! .....
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One of Alan Jackson's Best CDs
In my opinion, this is one of Alan Jackson's best albums. The 12 songs on the CD (all traditional country) should give every fan of Alan's about 45 minutes of pure pleasure. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Michal Magdon
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Alan Jackson is a good country singer, I have a few of his CD's and like them all, I would recommend this to anyone that likes country music.
Published 15 months ago by M. R. Thomson
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Alan Jackson is a brilliant award winning coutry singer you can liston to all day and not get tired of his voice, so far I only have three of his albums, but will be buying more as... Read more
Published 16 months ago by W. H. Hughes
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Another fantastic album from Alan Jackson. It has the usual mix of upbeat songs and ballads.I really love "Till the end" that is the best track on this album as far as I am... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Beaglelover
alan jackson freight train
Easy to understand why he has such a big following.Some good tracks and some average album tracks Prefer his non ballad type songs.
Published 16 months ago by B. Lynn
Great Music!
This CD is great. Alan Jackson has a fabulous voice and the songs are lovely. My husband whos isn't a huge country music fan likes it too.
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Published 19 months ago by C.MacG
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I have several Alan Jackson CDs, enjoyed his music for >20 years. The Freight Train was very enjoyable to listen to.
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