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Title: Country to the core
Review: It's perhaps unfair not to award the CD a full five stars as the vocal performances by Ricky Van Shelton are of the highest quality. Stand-out tracks include Borrowed Angel, The Best Is Yet To Come (a new song, not the Sinatra/Bennett standard) and the title track, Making Plans. There isn't a trace of watered-down pop country and Ricky's vocals are expressive and heart-felt. My only criticism is that the album is ballad-heavy and would have been stronger with the addition of two further up-beat songs at the expense of It Wouldn't Kill Me and He's Not The Man I Used To Be. I'd recommend this to any fans of real country music.
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