★★★★★
If you thought that '70s-'80s country rockers Pure Prairie League were memorable only for a couple of hits ("Amie," "Let Me Love You Tonight") and that faux-Rockwell cowboy on their album covers, well, you were right. Despite the presence of Vince Gill (who fronted them from 1978 to '83), Best of Pure Prairie League is insurance-policy dull, and ? this is scary ? awfully similar to today's Hot Country.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Three years ago this group released two albums: the country-rock Pure Prairie League and the more rock-oriented Bustin' Out. They then vanished, only to appear suddenly on the singles charts this spring with "Amie," a fresh breath of country air culled from the latter. Which brings us to a regrouped sextet and Two Lane Highway. Former leader Craig Lee Fuller is gone, but George Ed Powell and new lead guitarist Larry Goshorn continue the spirit of the old League...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
It's getting more difficult to find positive things to say about the band's records by this time. Aside from some fine playing by Andy Stein (ex-Lost Planet Airman), JD Call's superb pedal steel work, and the track "All the Way," there isn't much to recommend this album.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Country-rock veterans Pure Prairie League have endured enough lineup changes to rival a Major League Baseball team, but their laid-back blend of Nashville twang and Midwest earnestness eschews the genre's predilection for slick and soulless pop aimed at securing placement in a pickup truck commercial...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
PPL continues in the same vein as the last LP with only a couple of George Powell tunes bearing any resemblance to the sound of the first two records. Not a bad record, but it's becoming harder to find any traces of what made this band so special.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Live, PPL fairly accurately re-created their studio sound. Which makes one wonder, why buy this record if you have all the previous albums? The band doesn't seem to feel they have anything to prove so they walk through these tracks adding nothing. If you already like these songs, stick with the studio versions since nothing is added on this one.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Another shake-up finds Goshorn and longtime steel player, JD Call, gone. Goshorn has been replaced by future modern country star Vince Gill as both main writer and leader of the group. By this time, they are PPL in name only as there is no resemblance between this and the original band. In fact, if you play "Rude Rude Awakening" next to the Eagles' "One of These Nights," it would be difficult to distinguish between the two bands.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
The songwriting team of Craig Fuller and George Powell was one of the finest in the business, and on Bustin' Out they made an album that is unequaled in country-rock. The songs are meditative portraits of relationships that aren't running smoothly but are still alive, and they sound autobiographical rather than something contrived to sell records...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
Loading...
