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“Troubadour” is classic George Straight. The album starts off with the title track “Troubadour” and “It Was Me” both guenine sounding with simple and direct melodies. We see his honky-tonk style in songs like “Brothers of the Highway,” “West Texas Town”, and “Make Her Fall in Love with Me Song”. He hits religious themes in “I Saw God” today. This album has 12 tracks total and features many collaborations, most notable of which inlcude: Dean Dillon and Jamey Johnson .

“Sunset Man” is an okay / medicro album from James Otto. The first song in this album, “Ain’t Gonna Stop,” is really good. A nice high power country song. But after this it starts to get sappy and romantic and becomes a bit flat with the rest the CD. The follow songs are at best okay. This is Otto’s second album and there are 11 songs.

“All I Feel” is a pretty good album and Ray J shows his talents with songs like “Sexy I can” . Most of his songs have catchy hooks and are fun to listen too. “Sexy I can”, which features Yung Berg, is a great R&B ballad. I would say this album is a lot about sex or having sex with hot girls so please be fore-warned. But it’s pretty tasteful and not vulgar at all. Other notable songs are: “I Like to Trick”, “Girl From the Bronx”, and “Gifts”. There are 13 tracks in this album.

This is generally a good album from Pennywise. The guitar in this really strong and fast. There is less socio-political commentary in this album than there others. A great thing about his album is that it is FREE (yes $0.00 dollars) and available from the bands myspace site. There are 17 tracks in this album and this is their 9th. Some notable songs are:

• Something to Live For
• One Reason
• We’ll Never Know
• The Western World

The reviews are in and critics are giving “Good Time” a thumbs up. It’s an all around good album with lots of quick catchy songs and love ballads. What makes this a nice treat is that Jackson writes all 17 tracks for the songs that are in this album. This album proves that Alan Jackson is still going strong even 2 decades into his country music career. Critics have liked the fact that “Good Time” is pretty mainstream, with All Music Guide saying

“It demonstrates that Jackson is as comfortable with the poppier side of country as he is with the harder stuff, and he can deliver it without seeming as if he’s pandering, a feat that is almost as impressive as those generic detours he’s taken in the past few years.”

Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow is an overall good album from Sevendust. The band does not deviate from their usual style but there are a few refreshing songs like:  “The Past”, which features Chris Daughtry. This is a good album and the last one which will have guitarist Sonny Mayo in it as he has left the group. This is Seventhdust’s seventh studio album and it has 11 tracks in it.

I would recommend getting “Still da Baddest” for you Trina fans. It’s a good decent album, above average but not super ground breaking. It’s an upbeat CD about love, sex, and Trina’s senuality and confidence. Two good singles are “Single Again” and “I Got a Thang For You (featuring Keyshia Cole)” and are already out as music videos. This is Trina’s fourth studio album and there are 12 tracks.

It’s been two weeks since the Black Keys have released their 5th studio album, Attack and Release, and everyone is giving it stellar reviews. Blender gave this album 3 1/2 stars and says of the Black Keys’ unique sound

“dirty take on the blues… always sounded like they came from another time.”

So this is a nice change from the straight up rock stuff they do sometimes.

So Mariah Carey’s new album E=MC2 is finally out and is creating a lot of new buzz and overwhelmingly positive reviews. AP press sums it up by saying, “On her new disc, ‘EMC2,’ the formula is not quite as potent as her last creation. But it’s nearly as good, and equally as enjoyable.” An a lot of fun it is, from her sexy song “Touch My Body” to her raps with T-Pain E=MC2 is a solid R&B / Hip Hop album and sure to be this years hit album.

The wildly anticipated “Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings” is the fifth studio release from Counting Crows but the last since 2002. It’s been a while since fans have had a chance to get a new Counting Crows CD and the verdict is in on whether the wait was worth it. Rolling Stones has give this album 3 stars and metacritic has given it similar editor mark, 64/100. But fans seem to like it.