Comments on: Album Review: Randy Houser, How Country Feels

By: Quotable Country – 02/17/13 Edition | Country California

Quotable Country – 02/17/13 Edition | Country California — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:51:54 +0000

[...] sixteen-plus songs when barely five of those songs have anything substantial or authentic to say? ● – – Ben Foster on How Country [...]

By: RowdyRed

RowdyRed — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:46:04 +0000

I grieve for the days when country music wasn’t about the landscape any more than it was about work, love, heartbreak, and the emotional gamut that every human shares. The rampant limiting (oxymoron, hah!) of themes nowadays is pathetic, and the irony is that the “sound” most often employed by these “rural pride” anthems is throwback-sixties/seventies arena rock in texture. Rarely is heard a steel guitar, much less a fiddle, and god forbid anyone pick a banjo.

I am hardly in favor of limiting the sound of the genre — but the themes have become so monotonous and insular that, even as a lover of the genre, it’s a drag for me to listen to one solid hour of country radio. The title song, while well sung, is just another example of the problem. I wonder if I’ll still be listening to country radio in, say, three years. It’s pretty depressing.

By: Leeann Ward

Leeann Ward — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:19:05 +0000

Because they’re the ones leading the vapid, rock anthem charge in country music right now.

By: Markus Meyer

Markus Meyer — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:22:45 +0000

Haven’t heard the album yet, but great review :)

But, what I don’t get, is why people feel the need to always bash Bryan/Aldean when it comes to things like this.

By: Leeann Ward

Leeann Ward — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:29:16 +0000

I was disappointed by this album, especially because I love his voice and really enjoyed his previous album. I really only like three songs from this: “The Singer”, “Along for the Ride” and “Route 3 Box 50 D.” The rest really does sound like Jason Aldean/Luke Bryan clones.

By: Devin

Devin — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:13:29 +0000

I take back my earlier comment about it being unique and fitting his sound after re-listening to the CD today. It’s just that his VOICE is so distinctive, that it honestly overshadowed the arrangements and instrumentations most of the time, for me. Randy Houser, to me, is one of those that I’d listen to sing the phone book.

By: Tara Seetharam

Tara Seetharam — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:46:35 +0000

Haven’t heard the album all the way through yet, but this is a great review.

By: Motown Mike

Motown Mike — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:25:57 +0000

He released “Anything Goes” and apparently, anything goes with Randy Houser. I was hoping he stay on the straight and narrow when it comes to choosing good music that will actually produced like a country record. That did not happen. I am very disappointed. There are twenty other artists out there already doing the Jason Aldean gimmick, we don’t need another but we’re getting one weather we like it or not.

By: Devin

Devin — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 04:09:34 +0000

I didn’t think it was THAT bad. There were definitely more than a few songs that sounded like tracks that Luke Bryan passed on. It wasn’t traditional country sounding by any means, but I still think it fits his “sound”, and I think it’s actually unique from most artists out there.

Maybe my expectations were too low, but I was glad that he hadn’t “sold out/caved in” to radio/mainstream pressure as much as I thought he would.

By: bob

bob — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 12:48:19 +0000

Another album I won’t be buying. I guess he’s seen how successful Blake Shelton’s been. Can’t blame him I guess for wanting to make some bucks.