Looking forward to seeing everyone’s “BLURBER” tats…
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Anthony Easton: No one is preventing the cowboy from rocking, and Dunn suggesting otherwise hints at a persecution complex.
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Jonathan Bogart: I don’t understand what invoking the mythology of the cowboy is supposed to achieve here. And I only kind of understand what invoking the mythology of rock is supposed to achieve here.
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Michaela Drapes: Have you been around drunk cowboys? Not a good scene — especially when they look “rode hard and put up wet.” There are no good times ahead. At least four points docked for vague ZZ Top nods that never follow through.
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John Seroff: Too much “Girls Girls Girls”, not enough “Swingin”. I’d settle for competent “Girls Girls Girls.”
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Edward Okulicz: Because classic rock radio is an older love of mine than country, I’ll forgive Dunn for producing something that sounds like it belongs on an commercial plugging a night’s entertainment at the local speedway. It would need to be faster and have the drums mixed a bit louder, because fidelity wouldn’t be a concern, but the chorus is good enough to have people raising their plastic cups of beer or yelling into them.
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Brad Shoup: Propers to Dallas Davidson for resisting what was likely an overpowering urge to get cutesy with this track. Not that the classic honky-tonk Brooks & Dunn sound is inviolable or anything, but I’m glad palm muting is as fancy as things get.
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W.B. Swygart: I was gonna object to marrying a line as awesome as “Heartache’s on him like stink on a skunk” to production that sounds like 1980s Steve Winwood… then I realised that songs about bummed-out stetsonists getting blotto are probably always gonna sound that way. That doesn’t stop me getting Jools Holland-induced acid reflux off the backing here, but Dunn’s putting in a solid enough innings for it to not matter too much.
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