★★★★★
Chris YoungA.M. (RCA) Rating 3.5 out of 5 stars Chris Young can boast one of those rag to riches stories that are mostly the type borne from Hollywood screenwriters. Singled out for stardom after successfully competing on the USA Network program Nashville Star in 2006, he was subsequently signed to RCA Records. After a tepid start, he found himself sailing to the top of the charts courtesy of his fourth single, "Gettin' You Home (The Black Dress Song)...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-09-21
★★★★★
A neo-traditionalist in the truest sense of the Country music style when he started, Chris Young has evolved over the course of his four albums for RCA Records. And while for some the evolution from neo-traditionalist to Country Soulster with a rock-edge would be seen as 'calculated,' it was more of the case of a young singer evolving into himself as an artist, not unlike what Luke Bryan has done with his own career over his four albums...
- www.roughstock.com
2013-09-14
★★★★★
Chris Young can boast one of those rag to riches stories that are mostly the type borne from Hollywood screenwriters. Singled out for stardom after successfully competing on the USA Network program Nashville Star in 2006, he was subsequently signed to RCA Records. After a tepid start, he found himself sailing to the top of the charts courtesy of his fourth single, "Gettin' You Home (The Black Dress Song)...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-09-11
★★★★★
Neon is the third album by 2006 Nashville Star winner and Grammy-nominated country vocalist Chris Young. On the verge of scoring his fourth consecutive number one single with "Tomorrow," Young, who hails from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is acutely aware that now is the perfect time to up the musical ante, and it appears he's done just that...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2011-07-18
★★★★★
If there's nothing at all revolutionary about its brand of polished, contemporary country, Chris Young's Neon at least gives the Nashville Star winner a platform for his impressive voice. Though he isn't in the same league as Ronnie Dunn or Gary Allan in terms of singing with gritty, emotional depth, Young nonetheless has one of Nashville's most powerful and versatile voices. Unfortunately, the songs on Neon aren't nearly as distinctive...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2011-07-18
★★★★★
Chris Young's debut self-titled album sold well (thanks to his appearance on Nashville Star) but it failed to score a Top 40 hit from the album and then his record label did an unthinkable in today's country market by green-lighting the recording of a second album that became The Man I Want To Be. The lead single "Voices" became Chris Young's first Top 40 hit but stalled at 37. Then "Getting You Home (The Black Dress Song)" came out and radio finally relented and made Chris Young a star...
- www.roughstock.com
2011-07-11
★★★★★
Chris Young is something of a rarity these days. After a self-titled debut album that didn't sell as many copies or feature as many hits as Chris or his record label thought it would, he was granted the opportunity to record a second album, this one with James Stroud in the producer's chair. Also, instead of being an album that is rife with refried southern rock clichés, there is a decidedly 'neotraditionalist' or 'honky tonk' bent to this album...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07