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.

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  How Do You Plead?

  By My Darling Clementine

  Fairly Good, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Sep 4, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Poor Moon

  By Poor Moon

  Satisfactory, based on reviews by 7 critics

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  Release date: Aug 28, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Cast the Same Old Shadow

  By Dylan LeBlanc

  Acceptable, based on reviews by 6 critics

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  Release date: Aug 21, 2012
  Genre: Country
• 65
  

  Somewhere Beneath These Southern Skies

  By The Dirty Guv'nahs

  Fairly Good, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Aug 14, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Country Funk: 1969-1975

  By Various Artists

  Exceptionally Good, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Jul 24, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Live at Billy Bob's Texas

  By Billy Joe Shaver

  Great, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Jul 17, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Uncaged

  By Zac Brown Band

  Very Good, based on reviews by 6 critics

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  Release date: Jul 10, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Old School New Rules

  By Hank Williams, Jr.

  Mediocre, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Jul 10, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Traveler

  By Jerry Douglas

  Fairly Good, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Jun 26, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Welcome to the Fishbowl

  By Kenny Chesney

  Great, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Jun 19, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  And So It Goes

  By Don Williams

  Very Good, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Jun 19, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Ashes and Roses

  By Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Satisfactory, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Jun 12, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Punching Bag

  By Josh Turner

  Acceptable, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Jun 12, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Thirty Miles West

  By Alan Jackson

  Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic

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  Release date: Jun 5, 2012
  Genre: Country
• 70
  

  Kin: Songs by Mary Karr & Rodney Crowell

  By Rodney Crowell / Mary Karr

  Very Good, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Jun 5, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Heroes

  By Willie Nelson

  Fairly Good, based on reviews by 8 critics

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  Release date: May 15, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  From the Ground Up

  By John Fullbright

  Fairly Good, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: May 8, 2012
  Genre: Country
• 82
  

  The LHI Years: Singles, Nudes & Backsides (1968-71)

  By Lee Hazlewood

  Excellent, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: May 1, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Up All Night

  By Kip Moore

  Satisfactory, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Apr 24, 2012
  Genre: Country
• 80
  

  Mercyland: Hymns for the Rest of Us

  By Various Artists

  Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic

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  Release date: Apr 24, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Time as We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker

  By Todd Snider

  Great, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Apr 24, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Great Chicago Fire

  By The Waco Brothers

  Great, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Apr 24, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Intersection

  By Nanci Griffith

  Great, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Apr 10, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Changed

  By Rascal Flatts

  Satisfactory, based on a review by 1 critic

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  Release date: Apr 3, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  The Lumineers

  By The Lumineers

  Very Good, based on reviews by 5 critics

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  Release date: Apr 3, 2012
  Genre: Country
• 73
  

  The Wilderness: The Nomad Series, Vol. 4

  By Cowboy Junkies

  Very Good, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Mar 27, 2012
  Genre: Alt-Country
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  Year of the Witch

  By Races

  Fairly Good, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Mar 27, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Illusion [EP]

  By Poor Moon

  Acceptable, based on reviews by 6 critics

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  Release date: Mar 27, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Family Man

  By Shooter Jennings

  Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic

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  Release date: Mar 13, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Long Distance

  By Holly Golightly

  Fairly Good, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Mar 13, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Release Me

  By Lyle Lovett

  Very Good, based on reviews by 5 critics

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  Release date: Feb 28, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Days into Years

  By Elliott Brood

  Very Good, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Feb 28, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  The Pines

  By Phantom Limb

  Satisfactory, based on a review by 1 critic

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  Release date: Feb 13, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Home

  By Dierks Bentley

  Excellent, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Feb 7, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Temple Beautiful

  By Chuck Prophet

  Excellent, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Feb 7, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Hello Cruel World

  By Gretchen Peters

  Excellent, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Jan 31, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  100 Proof

  By Kellie Pickler

  Great, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Jan 24, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  Emotional Traffic

  By Tim McGraw

  Very Good, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Jan 24, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  For the Good Times

  By The Little Willies

  Very Good, based on reviews by 7 critics

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  Release date: Jan 10, 2012
  Genre: Country
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  This One's for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark

  By Various Artists

  Excellent, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Dec 13, 2011
  Genre: Country
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  Remember Me, Vol. 1

  By Willie Nelson

  Exceptionally Good, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Nov 22, 2011
  Genre: Country
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  The Sound of a Million Dreams

  By David Nail

  Very Good, based on a review by 1 critic

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  Release date: Nov 15, 2011
  Genre: Country
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  It's All Good

  By Joe Nichols

  Fairly Good, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Nov 8, 2011
  Genre: Country
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  Satan Is Real/Handpicked Songs 1955-1962

  By The Louvin Brothers

  Fantastic, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Nov 8, 2011
  Genre: Country
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  Four the Record

  By Miranda Lambert

  Great, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Nov 1, 2011
  Genre: Country
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  Smoking in Heaven

  By Kitty, Daisy & Lewis

  Fairly Good, based on reviews by 6 critics

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  Release date: Oct 25, 2011
  Genre: Country
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  Clancy's Tavern

  By Toby Keith

  Very Good, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Oct 24, 2011
  Genre: Country
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  Guitar Slinger

  By Vince Gill

  Very Good, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Oct 24, 2011
  Genre: Country
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  Little Red Boots

  By Lindi Ortega

  Very Good, based on a review by 1 critic

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  Release date: Oct 24, 2011
  Genre: Country
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  Revelation Road

  By Shelby Lynne

  Very Good, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Oct 18, 2011
  Genre: Country