Tough All Over

Gary Allan - Tough All Over

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Artist: Gary Allan
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-10-11
Music Label: Mca Nashville
Soundtracks:
  1. Tough All Over
  2. Best I Ever Had
  3. I Just Got Back From Hell
  4. Ring Ring
  5. Promise Broken
  6. Nickajack Cave
  7. Life Ain't Always Beautiful
  8. He Can't Quit Her
  9. What Kind Of Fool
  10. Puttin' Memories Away
  11. No Damn Good
  12. Puttin' My Misery On Display

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Hit: 4 Stars

I enjoyed this cd and felt that Gary Allan's voice worked well with the material on this cd. "Tough All Over" reeks of the pain and devastation one feels when the love of their life leaves them; he sings with a conviction that feels true, but not over done. This is how hard-rock country should be done; authentic and tough, real and raw. Gary lets us into his pain in ways that few artists do. My favorite songs are "Life Ain't Always Beautiful" and "Best I Ever Had."

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As the title of Gary Allan's sixth album suggests, there's no change of pace or lightening up on his darkest collection to date (and first since his wife's suicide). Love goes bad on the bittersweet "Best I Ever Had," gets brutal on "I Just Got Back from Hell," and turns positively lethal on "He Can't Quit Her." The closest Allan comes to an affirmative sentiment is the schmaltzy "Life Ain't Always Beautiful," though an extended guitar solo brings the rock balladry of "Putting My Misery on Display" to a soul-stirring finale. "Nickajack Cave" evokes the mythic redemption of Johnny Cash, but there's no redemption for Allan here. He sounds like he's trying so hard to convey life's hard lessons that the comparative understatement of "Puttin' Memories Away" comes as a relief. --Don McLeese
Tough All Over, Allan's overwhelming sixth collection, on MCA Nashville, is true to all aspects of Allan's past work, beliefs, and successes. He remains a staunch believer in risk-taking tunes, evidenced here particularly by the forceful "He Can't Quit Her," which sees love as addiction, and "Nickajack Cave (Johnny Cash's Redemption)," which portrays a dramatic turning point in the late country legend's life after drugs and alcohol had "him strung out on the ropes."

But Tough All Over also moves on. Previous Allan albums presented his music as the play of a mainstream Nashville artist making his strong and sweet peace with California country traditions stretching from the rich balladry of Roy Orbison to the ornery truths of Haggard and Owens to the post-punk roots allegiances of the Blasters and X.

That play is now gone. In its place is a fully integrated command of California and Nashville country that leaps out as Gary Allan music at its most immediate, satisfying, and mature.

For Allan, Tough All Over has become his favorite record; he describes the final sessions now as "the most expensive therapy I've ever had." He worked, after all, with the same group of musicians -- among them keyboardist Steve Nathan, drummer Chad Cromwell, electric guitarist Brent Rowan, bass player Michael Rhodes, acoustic guitarists Jake Kelly and John Willis, percussionist Eric Darken, fiddle player Hank Singer and steel player Robby Turner -- that he had been friends with and recorded with since his very first studio album.

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