★★★★★
Radney Foster has said that his latest album, Revival, is meant to be spiritually introspective; having just lost his father and having had his son move back from France. Indeed, many of the songs fit that introspective mindset quite nicely, marrying Foster's country and rock influences to perhaps his strongest vocal performances and strongest lyrics. Each song seems to come straight from the heart...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
The defunct duo of Foster
and Lloyd seemed merely to be grafting pop elements to country
lyrics, or country instrumentation to pop attitude. On his first solo
album, Del Rio, TX 1959, Radney Foster comes closer to narrowing the great divide, but
ends up veering back and forth from rhyme by rote to poetic truth.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Radney Foster's alt-country albums with Bill Lloyd (as Foster and Lloyd) never really jelled, and See What You Want to See explains why: Foster isn't a country performer as much as he is a natural pop artist. Here, he draws on the pain of divorce and the redemption of new love on songs packed with tuneful, hard-edged melodies and fist-in-glove lyrics. Another phoenix rises, this time to stay.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Much is made of "alt-country," which has become ever more loosely defined as "country music that isn't a bunch of canned schmaltz." That definition certainly applies to venerable Texas singer-songwriter Radney Foster, but Foster still resides in the margins: His music is too poppy to be alt-country, too country to be pop, and too good to score widespread airplay on contemporary country radio...
- www.avclub.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
We all know it: the successful live album is a thing of beautyand very difficult to pull off. There are a multitude of issues to consider: performance quality, song selection and arrangement, inclusion of artist narration and interaction with the band and the audience, sound quality, and crowd noisejust to name a few. None of them is easily resolved. With Are You Ready for the Big Show?, country-rock performer Radney Foster tries his hand at the live album and meets with mixed results.
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- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-20
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