★★★★★
Louisiana native Griggs arrives at his rocking debut with the black-leather attitude of Travis Tritt, the scruffy looks of Brad Pitt, and the confidence of a seasoned vet. Whether whomping up a barn-burning version of "Ain't Living Long Like This" or making the promise of "You Won't Ever Be Lonely," Griggs positions himself as a man for the moment ? whatever it happens to be. B+
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Andy Griggs' debut album is a tough sounding slice of modern country that, although far from raw, wisely avoids much of the ultra-sappiness that often taints the worst of the genre. Griggs has a wonderfully warm, deep, gospel-tinged voice that sometimes recalls Alan Jackson, but with less hillbilly twang...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Freedom is the follow-up album to Andy Griggs' 1999 You Won't Ever Be Lonely, and it proves that the best things in life come with time and nurturing. Griggs has a voice that can adapt itself to ballad and raucous grit alike, interpreting the music with a vocal "soul roll" in the right places...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Even if 2004's This I Gotta See charted higher on the Billboard pop charts than his previous two albums, Andy Griggs suffered from diminishing returns over the course of his three major-label albums, with each record spinning off fewer hits than the last. Given this, it's not entirely surprising that he parted ways with RCA after 2004, resurfacing on the Nashville-based independent label Montage four years later with The Good Life...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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