★★★★★
Before Collin Raye become one of Country music's best-known ballad singers he was heavily influenced by the country-rock of 1970s and 1980s bands like The Eagles and Lynyrd Skynyrd and the greasy R&B from artists like Aretha Franklin so it's only natural for Raye to finally release an album that features a heavy dose of songs that fit a similar mold...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
In 1996 Collin Raye released "Christmas: The Gift," his collection of 11 Christmas classics and one new track, "It Could Happen Again," which featured Johnny Cash reciting a story of the cease fire between soldiers in WWI. Since then, every holiday season, Collin tours behind that album and sings these Christmas songs. Now recording for his own label StarPointe Records, Collin has released "A Family Christmas," a collection of live recordings featuring all but two of those tracks...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Collin Raye, whose treacly "Love,Me" made him a star last year, apparently had a lot more artistry inhim ? and better taste in material ? than his exceptionally bland debut, In This Life,conveyed. His sweet and earnest tenor could work up a steamier sweaton "I Want You Bad (And That Ain't Good)," but with more delicatesongs, such as the blue "Somebody Else's Moon," Raye shows thenuances that separate an ordinary crooner from a gifted interpretivesinger. B
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Real soon, you can expect plenty of young metal bands to start chopping up their guitar chaos with the abrupt editing technology they've picked up from '80s dance music. This underground San Francisco art-thrash sextet is ahead of the game ? they already employ a hip-hop-style turntable jockey (Aaron Vaughn, who doubles on keyboards)...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Tired of the balladeer image "Love, Me" and "In This Life" had tagged him with, Raye set out to show that he was made of stronger material. The first single, the rollicking "That's My Story," was a Lee Roy Parnell tune that Raye roared through...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Collin Raye waited three years to deliver an official studio follow-up to his hit 1995 album I Think About You. That record was dominated by ballads, as is its successor, The Walls Came Down. Certainly, Raye's smooth country tenor is ideal for country-pop ballads like "In This Life," but he runs the risk of sounding a little too samey, which is what happens on The Walls Came Down...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Collin Raye's sixth conventional album continued his mainstream country-pop approach. "I Couldn't Last a Moment," which was on its way to the country Top Ten as the album was released, was a song of romantic regret that was typical of the album as a whole. The music sounded about as country as the Eagles, no more, no less, and Raye himself could have been mistaken for Don Henley in one of his smoother moments...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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