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Music CD - Gary Allan: Living Hard
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Music CD: Living Hard
Artist: Gary Allan
List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $3.98
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Manufacturer: MCA Nashville
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Tracks:
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1. Watching Airplanes
2. We Touched the Sun
3. She's So California
4. Like It's A Bad Thing
5. Learning How To Bend
6. As Long As You're Looking Back
7. Wrecking Ball
8. Yesterday's Rain
9. Trying To Matter
10. Half Of My Mistakes
11. Living Hard
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602517338357
Label: MCA Nashville
Manufacturer: MCA Nashville
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: MCA Nashville
Release Date: 2007-10-23
Studio: MCA Nashville
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Once again- Gary did not disappoint
Comment: I am a very big fan of Gary Allen's approach to country music. This new CD is no exception. The lyrics are cut and dry- letting the listener know exactly where he is in life. Following in Gary's style, the kickin' songs are exciting and mood-lifting, the ballads are humbling.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great CD
Comment: This is a great CD. I saw him on tour with my absolute favorite Keith Urban. That's what inspired me to buy this CD. I am very happy with it and recommend it to anyone that likes Keith Urban or good country music in general.
Customer Rating:
Summary: None Better!
Comment: Gary Allan once again produces that classic California country sound
that only he can deliver! His new songs are some of his Best.
She's So California, Yesterday's Rain and Like It's a Bad Thing are songs
so "Gary Allan". There is no other country singer that has his vocal cords! His voice is "deep throat sexy" and a true gift for all country music fans to enjoy. I was able to go to a concert last year at the Missouri State Fair, 3rd row. FANTASTIC SHOW! He's the best.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Take it or leave it
Comment: Some keeper songs, others not-so-much. I'd say you should buy this album by the song after previewing them.
Customer Rating:
Summary: He's Back
Comment: Findel, he's back. The first album i hear was Used Heart For Sale, theni think:WOW. Gary Allan from California, that man is fantastic singer, so i do look farward to his next album. I want moore good old country music from Gary Allan.
Keep on going...
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Editorial Reviews:
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Gary Allan has long been the go-to guy for intelligent, edgy country music, informed by the sweaty honky-tonk of the stop-and-sock joints of Bakersfield, CA, and the angry rock & roll of seedy L.A. On Living Hard, he wisely refuses to reprise his previous studio album, 2005's masterful Tough All Over, which framed the tragic aftermath of his wife's suicide, even as "Yesterday's Rain," a memorable lament, might make you think otherwise. Rather, Living Hard largely finds its inspiration in the hipper pop-rock that forged half of Allan's musical altar as a youth: the Eagles ("Like It's a Bad Thing"), the Beatles ("As Long As You're Looking Back"), the Rolling Stones ("Living Hard"). This homage is largely found in the instrumental dressings here, as Allan, whose guts-and-growl baritone always telegraphs as much resignation as rebellion, is too creative to salute those sounds outright. Nor is Allan going to corrupt his own authenticity: Co-writing six of the 11 cuts, he rarely rises above the melancholia that perpetually paints him as a man reeling from the jaw-breaking punch of fate that comes out of nowhere, best exemplified in the dazed glaze of "Watching Airplanes" and the brilliant barstool Zen of "Half of My Mistakes." But when he comes up for air, Allan sometimes does so with comic results. On "Wrecking Ball," a sexy roadhouse rocker hammered home on junkyard guitar, he tangles with the wrong woman, to cyclonic end: "She's a tornado / I'm a trailer house / That girl's a hurricane in a dress." Allan may be burning the candle at both ends, but on this song and elsewhere, he's just as seduced by the mystery of his predicament as the rest of us. --Alanna Nash
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