ALBUM REVIEW
ZAC BROWN BAND - WELCOME HOME
Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing, sings Brown on his seventh album, but it is difficult to take him seriously. Welcome Home is sentimental and slickly produced, but overall a bit synthetic: the sort of radio-friendly Country music that outsells even the biggest MTV hotshots in the US but often fails to translate elsewhere. The tracks hit all the usual touchstones: whiskey and women (Real Thing, Start Over) noble father figures (My Old Man) and of course the all-powerful US of A (Roots). Hokey stuff, but it will almost certainly be a treat for the fans who've led him to countless record sales and dozens of Grammy nominations in the States. The unconverted, however, may find themselves feeling like bystanders at a stranger's hoedown.
5/10
(Review by James Robinson)
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