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 A Great Album Aug 11, 2007
This is the first Clay Walker album I've heard. After hearing the title track, I decided to buy the album. And I can honestly say I'm glad I did! Clay's tender barritone fits ballads like "I Don't Want to Know", "Heaven Leave The Light On" and "This Is What Matters" to the uptempo fun of "I'm In The Mood For You", "When She's Good She's Good (When She's Bad She's Better)", "Everybody Needs Love" and "Coming Back Again".
All the songs on this album are really worth listening to repeatedly - I've heard it myself about five time in a two days - but there are four songs in particular which stand out remarkably. The title track for one, "A Few Questions", a gentle ballad which suites Clay's voice perfectly. In the song, Clay asks God of certain unfairness that life tends to deal, yet respectfully concedes that he can't critise what he doesn't understand. "Why did my cousin have to die in that crash?/A good kid, only seventeen/I still wonder 'bout that". Another favourite is "I Can't Forget Her". From it's light piano and Spanish guitar introduction to the very end, it truly excells. In it, Clay's girlfriend finds someone else and moves out West ("I guess it's for the best ... ") and he's now in Deo Rio, Spain, trying to forget her. "There's a senorita that is waitin' just over the border line/For me tonight/And I could hold her/And this tequila could help me love her/But there's still another."
The uptempo "Sweet Sun Angel" could make it seem like summer in a mid-winter blizzard, while "I Can't Sleep" - co-written by my favourite female singer, the wonderfully unique Chely Wright - is a soft, engaging ballad.
In short, a great album worth listening to time and again.
I hope that's answered A Few Questions.
The BEST Oct 22, 2005
Clay Walker is the most true country singer out there. He stays true to his roots, and writes and sings the absolute best there is out there. This cd is very good, but then again, he has not ever had a bad one. If you want my advice, buy it. It really is an awesome cd and Clay's hot too.
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Excellent!!! Jul 10, 2004
There really is not much more to say than this CD is absolutely wonderful. I think this CD may be his the best of his work!
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
A thoughtful, soulful, intelligent album Oct 30, 2003
I wasn't wild about the musical end of this album -- Walker and his production are both a bit thin -- but the lyrical content is quite striking. Although Walker only wrote a couple of the songs, this album has a very personal feel, and a sense of cohesion and depth that is all too rare in contemporary pop and country. It opens with the title track, which is one of those lofty efforts that I call "issue songs," a subgenre I don't generally care much for, as it seems opportunistic and contrived. However, on this track (which was also the album's lead single), Walker may surprise a few folks with his sincere questioning of our world's injustice and imbalances, not merely deploring when "bad things happening to good people," but also questioning the privelege and affluence he enjoys as a modern American. Even more surprising is that the album actually continues along in the same vein, for song after song. Walker returns to the issue of American materialism and spiritual drift on songs such as "Everybody Needs Love," the potentially controversial "Jesus Was A Country Boy" (where he sings, "I bet he never had a million dollars/or wore a lot of fancy clothes...") and, most effectively, on "This Is What Matters," where Walker encourages the world to turn off the cell phones and fax lines, and kick back with nature, family and friends for awhile. The album is dedicated, not surprisingly, to "the good Lord," but Walker eschews the self-serving "told you so" smugness that many self-styled Christians drape themselves in, and actually seems to be searching for both answers and for a personal philosophy that will allow him to live life as a good, whole human being, one who is engaged with other people and with the world around him... He's not parading his religion, he's actually exploring his spiritual values, and it's an interesting effort, made all the more thought provoking for the highly commercial context. This isn't the greatest Nashville-style country I've ever heard, but it is a substantive, earnest album, notable amid an ocean of crass, cynical, individualistic self-involvement. Good for Clay!
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The Best Voice in the biz Sep 25, 2003
Though this is not Clay's best overall album to date, there are a couple of songs here that just may be the best he has ever recorded. The title cut, "A Few Questions" and the song titled, "I Can't Forget Her" are worth the price of the album alone. The latter of the songs has a "Tex-Mex" haunting sound to it. It stands apart from any material Clay has recorded in his outstanding career. Overall, the cd is pretty solid. There are a few "throw out" songs that shouldn't have made the cd, but with a voice like Clay, they are tolerable to listen to. Maybe next time Clay will record some songs written by the combo of Tony Martin & Mark Nessler or Montana solo writer, Spencer Winegar (3 of country's best). Martin/Nessler & Winegar could have definitely replaced the "throw out" material here with some quality songs.
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