Randy Travis - Around the Bend
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Randy Travis' 1986 emergence as the leader of a fresh crop of country music youngsters came with a deeply reverential nod to the makers of what was once long-considered authentic, unvarnished, old-school country. Now, after an early-millennium shift into no-doubt-about-it Christian country, Travis returns here with a somewhat more mainstream country release, in a career that long-ago rendered such delineations superfluous. You Didn't Have a Good Time is a gut-wrenching ballad of the bottle that holds out hope for redemption, while Every Head Bowed is a riotously funny look at blessings that heat up as dinner cools down. The title song is a bluesy, country reflection on life and death, with a stinging Telecaster...
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