★★★★★
A comedic intro explains the intended effect of Kevin Fowler's seventh studio album: "It's country that's rockin', the kind of music that makes you want to crack a cold one and put a good dip in!" From the title track, delineating his romantic dealbreakers and forcing the word "yep!" 16 times to the similarly catchy "Guitars and Guns," "If I Could Make a Livin' Drinkin'," and "Beer Me," Fowler uses his considerable talents to write bumper stickers and beer commercials...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2014-04-17
★★★★★
For a decade now Kevin Fowler has been making music that was just a bit left-of-center of the mainstream with songs like "Beer, Bait & Ammo," "The Lord Loves The Drinkin' Man" and "Long Line of Losers" before eventually scoring a couple Nashville label deals with Equity Nashville and then Lyric Street, where he scored a Top 40 hit with "Pound Sign" just last year...
- www.roughstock.com
2011-08-15
★★★★★
More a singles act than an album maker, Fowler collects 16 fan favorites and two previously unavailable tunes for the only LP of his you'll ever need. Redneck anthem "Beer, Bait and Ammo," sly double entendre "Don't Touch My Willie," the new, hard-charging "Beer Season," and truck commercial in waiting, "100% Texan," anchor. Some of his wordplay gets too cute, but the Amarillo native can put across every flavor of Texas-styled country with rock-edged gusto.
- www.austinchronicle.com
2010-12-27
★★★★★
What hath Toby Keith wrought? Once again, an entire generation of popular Texas country artists - this one reared in the respectable tradition of Robert Earl Keen - has been lured by big Nashville budgets, with their music paying the price. Kevin Fowler's fifth studio affair plants the local "100% Texan" firmly on Music Row, the results of which sound like corporate radio tripe that's hopefully soon forgotten...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Two things you find in abundance down Texas way these days: no-nonsense young honky-tonkers; and lots of talk about how the folks in Nashville just don't make real country music anymore. Problem is, keeping things "real" doesn't guarantee an end product any more interesting than Nashville's flavor du jour...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
The outlaw movement in country music didn't last very long in Nashville, but in Texas they take being an outlaw, or at least being an outcast and outsider, pretty seriously. Since returning to his country roots in 2000, Kevin Fowler turned out the kind of country albums they've long forgotten about in Nashville, hardwood honky tonk Saturday night epics with plenty of rock attitude and enough grit to grind the fenders off a '69 Caddy...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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