Country Music Reviews

The Music Critic Country and Alternative Country section includes 597 album reviews from the genre. The origins of country music are found in the folk music of working-class Americans and blue-collar life, and it remains very popular in America to this day.

• 77
  

  Lost on the River

  By The New Basement Tapes

  Great, based on reviews by 9 critics

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  Release date: Nov 10, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 65
  

  Man Against Machine

  By Garth Brooks

  Fairly Good, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Nov 10, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 74
  

  Rock & Roll Time

  By Jerry Lee Lewis

  Great, based on reviews by 5 critics

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  Release date: Oct 28, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 80
  

  Sylvie

  By Sylvie Simmons

  Excellent, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Oct 28, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 90
  

  Pain Killer

  By Little Big Town

  Fantastic, based on a review by 1 critic

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  Release date: Oct 21, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 78
  

  American Middle Class

  By Angaleena Presley

  Great, based on reviews by 5 critics

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  Release date: Oct 14, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 44
  

  Old Boots, New Dirt

  By Jason Aldean

  Mediocre, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Oct 7, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 75
  

  Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone

  By Lucinda Williams

  Great, based on reviews by 6 critics

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  Release date: Sep 30, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 70
  

  747

  By Lady Antebellum

  Very Good, based on a review by 1 critic

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  Release date: Sep 30, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 57
  

  Bringing Back the Sunshine

  By Blake Shelton

  Satisfactory, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Sep 30, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 85
  

  The Way I'm Livin'

  By Lee Ann Womack

  Exceptionally Good, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Sep 23, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 75
  

  Chinese Fountain

  By The Growlers

  Great, based on reviews by 6 critics

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  Release date: Sep 23, 2014
  Genre: Alt-Country
• 60
  

  Plain Spoken

  By John Mellencamp

  Satisfactory, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Sep 23, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 67
  

  Sundown Heaven Town

  By Tim McGraw

  Fairly Good, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Sep 16, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 76
  

  Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar

  By Robert Plant

  Great, based on reviews by 14 critics

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  Release date: Sep 9, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 72
  

  Ryan Adams

  By Ryan Adams

  Very Good, based on reviews by 19 critics

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  Release date: Sep 9, 2014
  Genre: Alt-Country
• 71
  

  Single Mothers

  By Justin Townes Earle

  Very Good, based on reviews by 7 critics

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  Release date: Sep 9, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 70
  

  I Don't Dance

  By Lee Brice

  Very Good, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Sep 9, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 54
  

  Moonshine in the Trunk

  By Brad Paisley

  Acceptable, based on reviews by 5 critics

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  Release date: Aug 25, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 78
  

  The No-Hit Wonder

  By Cory Branan

  Great, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Aug 19, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 80
  

  Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears
  Revisited

  By Various Artists

  Excellent, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Aug 19, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 68
  

  Long in the Tooth

  By Billy Joe Shaver

  Very Good, based on reviews by 5 critics

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  Release date: Aug 5, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 80
  

  Counterfeit Blues

  By Corb Lund

  Excellent, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Jul 1, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 70
  

  Band of Brothers

  By Willie Nelson

  Very Good, based on reviews by 7 critics

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  Release date: Jun 17, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 74
  

  There's a Blue Bird in My Heart

  By Anders Parker

  Great, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Jun 17, 2014
  Genre: Alt-Country
• 80
  

  Trouble & Love

  By Mary Gauthier

  Excellent, based on reviews by 5 critics

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  Release date: Jun 10, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 73
  

  Platinum

  By Miranda Lambert

  Very Good, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Jun 3, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 80
  

  Common Ground: Dave & Phil Alvin Play and Sing the
  Songs of Big Bill Broonzy

  By Dave Alvin

  Excellent, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Jun 3, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 78
  

  Songs

  By John Fullbright

  Great, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: May 27, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 75
  

  Blue Smoke

  By Dolly Parton

  Great, based on reviews by 5 critics

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  Release date: May 13, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 79
  

  Metamodern Sounds in Country Music

  By Sturgill Simpson

  Excellent, based on reviews by 7 critics

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  Release date: May 13, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 76
  

  Farmer's Corner

  By Wooden Wand

  Great, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: May 6, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 70
  

  Storyline

  By Hunter Hayes

  Very Good, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: May 6, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 67
  

  Fortune

  By Black Prairie

  Fairly Good, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Apr 22, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 75
  

  Tarpaper Sky

  By Rodney Crowell

  Great, based on reviews by 7 critics

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  Release date: Apr 15, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 70
  

  Undefeated

  By Bobby Bare, Jr.'s Young Criminals' Starvation League

  Very Good, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Apr 15, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 73
  

  Put Your Needle Down

  By The Secret Sisters

  Very Good, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Apr 15, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 75
  

  Carter Girl

  By Carlene Carter

  Great, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Apr 8, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 65
  

  Everlasting

  By Martina McBride

  Fairly Good, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Apr 8, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 70
  

  Here Be Monsters

  By Jon Langford & Skull Orchard

  Very Good, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Apr 1, 2014
  Genre: Alt-Country
• 69
  

  Out Among the Stars

  By Johnny Cash

  Very Good, based on reviews by 14 critics

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  Release date: Mar 25, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 77
  

  Divisionary

  By Ages and Ages

  Great, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Mar 25, 2014
  Genre: Alt-Country
• 63
  

  Strangers

  By Simone Felice

  Fairly Good, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Mar 25, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 80
  

  Slow Me Down

  By Sara Evans

  Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic

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  Release date: Mar 11, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 77
  

  Reflections

  By Don Williams

  Great, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Mar 11, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 58
  

  Riser

  By Dierks Bentley

  Satisfactory, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Feb 25, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 72
  

  Doubled Exposure

  By D. Charles Speer & the Helix

  Very Good, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Feb 25, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 73
  

  Bad Self Portraits

  By Lake Street Dive

  Very Good, based on reviews by 7 critics

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  Release date: Feb 18, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 70
  

  Bluebird

  By Dawn Landes

  Very Good, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Feb 18, 2014
  Genre: Country
• 75
  

  The Lights from the Chemical Plant

  By Robert Ellis

  Great, based on reviews by 8 critics

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  Release date: Feb 11, 2014
  Genre: Country