★★★★★
Your enjoyment of Aaron Lewis' EP, Town Line, is directly proportional to how much you enjoy his debut country single, "Country Boy." If you loved the down-home, don't-tread-on-me sentiments, then are you ever in luck, because the song shows up three times on a seven-track album...
- www.the9513.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Questions of authenticity often arise when established artists in one genre shift dramatically and improbably to another. David Bowie's plastic soul outing Young Americans comes to mind, as does Chris Cornell's bungled 2009 collaboration with Timbaland. Surely Ringo Starr raised a few eyebrows when he jetted to Nashville to record 1970's Beaucoups of Blues. Much like the former Beatle, Staind frontman Aaron Lewis insists his foray into the country music arena isn't mere dalliance...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-12-13
★★★★★
Summary: Aaron Lewis has created a possible cure for insomnia more than he has an enjoyable album. 23 of 28 thought this review was well written It's a wonder why Aaron Lewis, the frontman of the alternative metal band Staind, has opted to go the route of country music for his solo career as a singer-songwriter...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2012-11-20
★★★★★
Aaron Lewis' new full-length country album The Road most significantly differs from his 2011 Country Music EP, Town Line, in that it sounds like an honest to goodness country album, start to finish, rather than a more acoustic-oriented Staind recording. Instead of decorating his songs with legitimate country music legends, as he did with George Jones and Charlie Daniels on the Gold-selling EP track "Country Boy," The Road finds Lewis coming off much more comfortable in his cowboy boots and...
- www.roughstock.com
2012-11-09
★★★★★
Sound: Unless you've been living underneath a rock, you probably heard about Staind frontman Aaron Lewis starting a solo career as a country artist. On Town Line, we get the first taste of what Aaron can do as a country artist. Although there are seven songs total, there's only three completely new songs. There are three versions of his smash hit single Country Boy (the album version featuring George Jones and Charlie Daniels, the radio edit sung exclusively by Lewis, and an acoustic version)...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
For his first album as a solo artist, Aaron Lewis, the vocalist of multi-platinum alt-rock band Staind, has come out of seemingly left field with the country music-leaning Town Line. EP...
- roughstock.com
2011-03-07