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Title: Great voice going to waste
Review: This album is just a collection of boring, soft, ready-for-radio irrelevant songs. After a while the songs start to sound almost the same, faceless mainstream rock. Too much collaborators, too little Bo. A little bit more freedom would have resulted in a much more interesting album. It's like a soundtrack to a some trendy TV show.The guy does his best with the songs he's been given. He has such a good rock voice that it is a shame to hear it going to waste with a pile of generic unmemorable songs. Afterall this is a guy that became popular singing songs he liked that were almost entirely alien (Allman Brothers, Badlands, Jim Croce...) to the core audience of American Idol.Next time let the guy really do his thing. The demos with his band Sugar Money are way superior. "The Real Thing"? I don't think so, maybe the next album.
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