Was this REALLY one of the best country music had to offer in 2006? I sure hope not. I don’t even dislike Gill…some of his stuff has a chance at making my “lifetime 1000 best songs” list but this was an overlong uninspiring snoozefest full of cliche and boilerplate tunes. Gill really needed someone to help him trim this down to 1 GOOD CD instead of 4 ho-hum ones.

EDIT:

After listening to this a lot more, I wonder what I was thinking when I listened to this before. While I still think it could be edited down, there’s enough great material here for this to be worth listening to. But I could still probably distill it to 1 CD. :)

Start by eliminating the “rocking” record.

My tracklist:

The rock of your love (feat. Bonnie Raitt)

What you give away (feat. Sheryl Crow)

Faint of heart (duet with Diana Krall)

No easy way

Tell me one more time about Jesus (feat. Amy Grant)

Which way will you go

Sweet little Corrina (feat. Phil Everly)

Take this country back (duet with John Anderson)

All prayed up

Cold gray light of gone (feat. The Del McCoury Band)