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Brian Mansfield - USA Today
Gary Allan - Get off On The Pain
HURTS SO GOOD
On the title track, Gary Allan sings that he doesn't "know why my life sounds like a heartbroke country song." So does his album. On an album that twangs like the guitars have motorcycle chains for strings, Allan sides with long shots, dark horses and lost causes more apt to revel in their misery than celebrate their good fortune. — Brian Mansfield
>Download: Today, That Ain't Gonna Fly,
Metromix New York
This marks country singer-songwriter Allan's eighth album, and many are placing it among his best work. That's some statement for a guy who's plenty familiar with the top section of the country charts. Lead single "Today" has been backing up the claims, and the rest of this set follows through, delivering modern country with a rock sensibility, and just enough balladry to keep the gals swooning.
Dallas Morning News
Get Off on the Pain (MCA Nashville) – Honky-tonk country deftly meets rock grit once again with sobering results on Allan's eighth studio album.
Nashville, TN March 8, 2006 --- Country superstar Gary Allan earned nominations this morning for Album of the Year and Single Record of the Year for the 41st Academy Of Country Music Awards. The buzz surrounding Allan’s album TOUGH ALL OVER has been uncontrollable since the album made its debut at #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart and #3 on the Billboard Top 200. With sales of over 100,000 units its first week in stores, the album quickly went gold and is on its way to platinum.
Tough All Over is the revered as the one of the top 5 albums of 2005 says USA Today. Not only did they find Gary Allan's latest album as one of the best in all genre of music, but it was also the only country album to be listed as one of the best. So if wasn't on your Christmas list it should be your new years resolution to get it.
Tough All Over
* * * * (4 out of 4 stars)
“I just got back from hell,” Allan sings on his first album since his wife’s suicide last October, his voice still clearly shaken by the trip.
In the space of 17 seconds in his single Songs About Rain, Gary Allan mentions '60s and '70s records by Brook Benton, Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, George Hamilton IV and the British pop group The Fortunes.
