★★★★★
It seems an inevitable arc: the more one album swells with ambition, the more the next will either try to outdo it or take refuge in an opposite place. When you hit your most ambitious, even overblown point, your next album will be a modest affair; you can almost bet on it. This is that modest affair, coming after the two-cd The Guitar Song, which took the solitary-man-playing-lonely-music theme of That Lonesome Song and blew it up to widescreen...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-11-13
★★★★★
It seems an inevitable arc: the more one album swells with ambition, the more the next will either try to outdo it or take refuge in an opposite place. When you hit your most ambitious, even overblown point, your next album will be a modest affair; you can almost bet on it. This is that modest affair, coming after the two-cd The Guitar Song, which took the solitary-man-playing-lonely-music theme of That Lonesome Song and blew it up to widescreen...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-11-13
★★★★★
Jamey JohnsonLiving For A Song: A Tribute To Hank Cochran
(Mercury Nashville)
Rating: 3 ½ stars
Born in rural Mississippi during the Great Depression, raised in an orphanage in Memphis, and traveling the West as an itinerant worker in his teens, Hank Cochran was an unlikely country music legend. Once he finally settled in Nashville and took a songwriting gig at Ray Price's Pamper Music publishing firm, Cochran penned huge hits for Patsy Cline, Burl Ives, Eddy Arnold, and too many others to...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2012-11-07
★★★★★
During the last couple of years of his life, legendary songwriter Hank Cochran served as both a professional mentor and a close personal friend to acclaimed country artist Jamey Johnson. That deep connection informs every aspect of Living for a Song, the reverent tribute album Johnson has recorded for the late songwriter...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2012-10-15
★★★★★
Jamey Johnson's career has been built on his love for traditional country music so it makes a whole lot of sense for Jamey's latest album to be calledLivin' For A Song - A Tribute To Hank Cochran...
- www.roughstock.com
2012-10-11
★★★★★
Sound: You don't hear a lot of Jamey Johnson on Country radio these days. That's just fine with this listener. See, Jamey is an actual Country artist. He isn't a pop artist disguised as a country artist. If he has to sacrifice radio play to sound this good, not to mention this legitimate, I sure hope he continues to do so...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Jamey Johnson covers Kris Kristofferson songs and sings like a mellow Waylon Jennings, but he's no anti-pop traditionalist. On his audacious, frequently excellent third album, The Guitar Song, Johnson shares his dream of outlaw country becoming as dominant a commercial force as it was in the '70s, over the course of 25 songs rooted in the past, but not indebted to it...
- www.avclub.com
2010-12-27
★★★★★
Jamey Johnson may be a country singer/songwriter on the rise, but he has by no means lost touch with the common man's condition. One of the many new examples of this overtly empathetic position is expressed with "Can't Cash My Checks", off the expansive The Guitar Song project, his latest. The character in this song is first introduced welcoming a visitor into his home. And he's the kind of man that will tell you right off the bat, "You can take my word/But you can't cash my check...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
When the album format first became a viable alternative to singles artists salivated because they could create a cohesive album that flowed from beginning to end. Fans loved it because they could buy albums (vinyl records at the time) and listen to their favorite artists for more than a couple songs at a time. Labels noticed right-away the financial viability of albums and soon were signing artists to album deals...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
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