★★★★★
After a few years apart and working on separate projects, Lonestar and Richie McDonald re-teamed to bring the band's core four member artists back together. To be honest, the quartet of Richie McDonald, Dean Sams, Keech Rainwater, and Michael Britt were always better together than apart. For their Life As We Know It, the band has self-produced the album and it features a dozen tracks, of which only three were not written by the band...
- www.roughstock.com
2013-06-04
★★★★★
On their first album sans original lead singer, Richie McDonald, Lonestar delivers a bland pop-country set that never extends beyond life-affirming pablum. Delayed after the lackluster performance of its lead single, 2008?s "Let Me Love You," Party arrives more than three years after McDonald's departure. Lonestar's second act starts with this pleasant listening experience, but it's ultimately forgettable fluff that lacks the versatility of great Nashville albums...
- www.the9513.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
From the time they came out in the 1990s, Lonestar was a band that instantly appealed to me. I was and am still very much a mainstream music kind of guy (with lots of 'alt' stuff thrown in) so, even as the mainstream has changed a bit, I still like a majority of what I hear...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Sound: Country pop magnates Lonestar have a penchant for inspiring love in their sun-kissed melodies, and the band's latest CD Party Heard Around The World is no different. After making one lineup adjustment which placed Cody Collins on lead vocals to fill in the gap left by the departure of vocalist Richie McDonald, Lonestar have continued where they left off pursuing a romantic flavored country that is not too sweet or feigned...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2010-06-19
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
It's official - Lonestar want to be Brooks & Dunn. The mild-mannered Texan foursome have hidden this ambition quite successfully by pressing the ballad button too hard since their 2000 smash ''I'm Amazed'', but now with their first studio release for three years they're playing at being rock stars again...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2009-06-12
★★★★★
The showstopper single "Amazed" from nouveau-country band Lonestar's third album is a runaway crossover hit, threatening the No. 1 pop slot. It's Styx-go-to-Nashville: a grandiose power ballad, sodden with sincerity. The hook is Dan Huff's production, which masses together synths, echoed drums, and oceans of twinkly effects. A shameless tearjerker, cleverly assembled.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Amazed, the showstopper single fromnouveau-country band Lonestar's third album is a runaway crossover hit,threatening the No. 1 pop slot. It's Styx-go-to-Nashville: agrandiose power ballad, sodden with sincerity. The hook is DanHuff's production, which masses together synths, echoed drums,and oceans of twinkly effects. A shameless tearjerker, cleverlyassembled.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
You don't have to be populist to be popular, but it helps. Lonestar have been one of country's most irrefutable pop forces for several years. On their fifth album, as with all their work, they live and die by tried-and-true tropes: the goodness of children, the intractability of the gender wars, the heroism of the soldier. It's country-by-numbers. Lonestar excel only at bland platitudes, painting broad emotional brush strokes that celebrate the everyday, tamely.
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
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