emotional traffic
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emotional traffic
Emotional Traffic is the eleventh studio album by American country music artist Tim McGraw. -Wikipedia
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Taste of Country
2012 - McGraw's claim that this is his best album ever may be a stretch -- there just aren't enough moments of "Oh my gosh! Turn it up!" Instead, one gets moody dinner music, or an album that's best enjoyed alone in one's bedroom or car after a very long day.
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Rolling Stone
2012 - His 11th LP is his most assured, with a dozen sharp songs about middle-American struggles. Strong storytelling redeems cheesy stuff like “Touchdown Jesus,” as does the music, a savvy mix of down-home twang, pop tunefulness and rock heft. (There’s even a Ne-Yo duet, “Only Human.”)
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Country Music Channel
Emotional Traffic may contain two-year-old recordings, but for McGraw’s fans, it will shine like tomorrow’s sunrise.
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The Washington Post
2012 - it’s a solid outing from a solid singer in his prime, doing mostly as he pleases. Among the usual honky-tonk tracks and ballads are a handful of more adventurous songs, albeit with their edges sanded down.
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Country Universe
2012 - First and foremost, the material is shockingly weak. Yes, McGraw has been slowly slipping over the last couple of albums, but the bottom has completely fallen out here.
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Roughstock
2012 - Quite simply, Emotional Traffic is the work of an artist at the top of his game, 20 years into his career.
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Reuters
2012 - it’s another solid B+ effort in a career that’s been full of them — hinting at greatness when McGraw is trafficking in thematically complex balladry, settling for affability when those orange cones inevitably steer him toward good-timey rockers and humanist affirmation anthems.
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NewsOK
2012 -packed with the huge arena-filling country-rockers, sentimental crossover-ready country-pop ballads and intriguing boundary-pushing experiments McGraw has long favored
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LA Times
2012 - In truth, “Emotional Traffic” isn’t dramatically better, worse or all that different from what he’s been doing since the beginning: button-pushing ballads built largely on sentiments like those you encounter in daily affirmation booklets, interspersed with upbeat country-rock brimming with snappy instrumental hooks but little lyrical bite.
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NPR
2012 - Yet McGraw's insistence on quality material and his subtle way of shaping a story lift Emotional Traffic into a different category than the average hat project.
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UPROXX
2012 - While it occasionally sounds dated, for the most part, the album strikes the perfect balance of McGraw”s country, rock and R&B sides.
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Country Standard Time
In the end, Zelig McGraw mostly comes out on the winning side when rating the songs on "Emotional Traffic." And that's more than an acceptable traffic report.
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My Kind of Country
2012 - Overall, the material selected here was a major advance for Tim McGraw, but the production choices are less palatable.
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Today
"Emotional Traffic" may contain two-year-old recordings, but for McGraw's fans, it will shine like tomorrow's sunrise.
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Nuts About Country
Given McGraw’s vocal range and talent, with the chops to make ballads bleed and twang rock, the album rides the range, and comfortably, with a cross fusion of weepers and toe-tappers.
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Las Vegas Weekly
2012 - McGraw fans will be relieved to finally get their hands on this album, but it was hardly worth the fuss.
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Slant Magazine
2012 - Emotional Traffic only works in its moments of restraint and relative good taste, and those are exceedingly rare.
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Focus on the 615
2012 - This whole album is my favorite release of Tim McGraw’s to date and I strongly recommend it
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American Song Writer
2012 - While not exactly the consummate work the singer advertised, it’s a solid departure bursting with enough potential singles to suggest that the most-played male artist of the last decade will continue to dominate country radio beyond his former label.
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Billboard
For better or worse, the two decade musical union between Tim McGraw and Curb Records comes to an end. But, it ends with quite a musical bang.
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