 Erlewine rated this album two @-@ and @-@ a @-@ half stars out of five on Allmusic . He considered the album more country pop @-@ oriented than Walker 's work for Giant , saying that this change in sound made it not " feel like a Clay Walker album . " Dan McIntosh gave a mostly @-@ negative review for Country Standard Time , where he wrote that " even his passionate singing cannot rise above this album 's predictable lyrics and lame arrangements . " 
