Track Listings (12) - Disc #1| All Artists: Andy Griggs Title: Freedom Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 1 Label: Sbme Special Mkts. Release Date: 9/12/2006 Genres: Country, Pop Styles: Today's Country, Neotraditional Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 828768768426 |
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Yes, he looks like the rock & roll love child of Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, all blond and faux-scruffy and sexy in leather pants. And yes, little girls will swoon. But Andy Griggs is not the Fabian of his generat... more »     |
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Amazon.com Yes, he looks like the rock & roll love child of Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, all blond and faux-scruffy and sexy in leather pants. And yes, little girls will swoon. But Andy Griggs is not the Fabian of his generation. Three years after his promising, gold-selling debut, You Won't Ever Be Lonely, he returns with a surprisingly muscular set of songs, half of which he cowrote. Louisiana born and bred, with soulful bluegrass and gospel influences, Griggs knows how to get the feeling in the grooves. He's at his best when mining a gravelly, Travis Tritt-style "outlaw" sound, as he frequently does throughout the repertoire and particularly on the beat-heavy, brooding "A Hundred Miles of Bad Road." But don't sell him short on atmospheric songs that capture a moment, even if he puts an ill-chosen banjo on a Cajun-flavored rhythm number ("Sweetheart of Beinja Bayou") or references a "preacher's daughter holding a beer" on "How Cool Is That." By the time he gets to the hidden track, "Someone Like Me," written by his late brother, Mason, he's pretty much given blood. Let's see DiCaprio do that. --Alanna Nash Similar CDs
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Member CD Reviews Kyle D. (kdenny01) from BRIGHTON, CO Reviewed on 4/23/2013... A pretty good album. I hadn't heard of him before it and was surprised at his work. It is an album that you can listen to start to end. 0 of 2 member(s) found this review helpful.
CD ReviewsI Wish He Were Still Country K. Coleman | Phoenix, AZ United States | 08/09/2002 (2 out of 5 stars) "Andy Griggs has one of the finest voices in young country. It's a crying shame that instead of singing COUNTRY music, he chooses (or is forced) to sing this maudlin faux-country pop junk. Bad enough this stuff is being shoved down everyone's neck already as being "country" music when all it really is, is sloppy, watered-down pop, they have to make good country singers go this direction, too. This album is pretty far from being country music. It is an overproduced pop mess at best -- and not even very good pop. About the best track on this disc is "A Hundred Miles of Bad Road," and even there, although Andy appears to be trying to remain a country music singer, the obtrusive "bang bang bang" of the synth machine drums and electronic overproduction takes out any last traces of country the song may have had. The entire disc is awash with this foul overproduction and far too many electronic tricks, which makes it ANYTHING but country music, which is (according to the dictionary, if not Nashville) "a generally simple and straightforward style of music." It would be delightful if artists like Andy would stick to just good country music instead of all being herded into the sound-alike, look-alike, cookie-cutter pop-faux-country mold Nashville is shoving every artist east of Texas into. If you like actual COUNTRY music, I advise passing this one by and getting something by Dale Watson or Roger Wallace, instead." Andy Griggs is HOT Bobbi Grace | Atlanta,GA. | 08/15/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "I love Andy's music. Freedom is the first CD I have of his but I will DEFINETLY be buying more. The song "Tonight I Want To Be Your Man" WOWEEEEEE! It Kicks!"
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