★★★★★
It's easy to dismiss Jack Ingram's latest albums as anything but selling-out his hard-earned road-dog Texas indie spirt for the sake of radio hits but to do such a thing would be selling Jack Ingram short. Sure some of the songs he sings are a little 'glossier' than the stuff he recorded over the course of his 15 years in the business but like fellow Texas artists who've crossed-over into the mainstream, Jack Ingram is firmly in control of the music he makes...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Jack Ingram was named Top New Male Vocalist at last year's ACM Awards, but the Faustian bargain this respected Texas veteran made to strike it rich in Nashville is abundantly clear. Of all the slickly mediocre tracks on Big Dreams & High Hopes, his eighth album, it's the remake of his own 1999 song "Barbie Doll" that hurts the most, now that its raspy bitterness has been replaced by commercial "rock" production. A suggestion: Skip this and listen to 1999's Hey You instead...
- ew.com
2009-08-29
★★★★★
Jack Ingram comes to hismajor label debut, Livin' or Dyin', with an impressive clutch of raw-boned,Texas-style songs, good covers from Jimmie Dale Gilmore and GuyClark, and more than a healthy reverence for coproducer SteveEarle, who stamped his sound over much of the record. In an agewhen soft rock passes for real country, Ingram is thes---kicker's revenge. B
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Jack Ingram's verged on top-tier success for a while, and he is currentlyusing a cover of Hinder's "Lips of an Angel" to get him the rest of theway there. Luckily, This Is It also contains plenty of songs that arenot about infidelity with strippers; in fact, its charming final fourtracks are rooted in the alt-country tradition in which the raspy Texangot his start...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
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