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Entertainment Weekly'Witness to Your Life' and the title track are two of the most engaging pop paeans to mature, married love you've ever heard. [24 Aug 2007, p.71]
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There's no denying her eye for out-of-the-way details or her ear for a decent tune.
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Unglamorous clearly shows that the 36-year-old has graduated.
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Her vivid miniatures of complicated intimacies and everyday inadequacies slip between the cracks of country, folk, and rock, and they're as graceful as they are unflinching.
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Folk and rock collide in happy fashion as McKenna celebrates the commonplace on the rugged title track, setting vocal grit alongside flowing organ and a punchy backbeat.
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The sound is noticeably sweeter, with strings and synthesizers, and so are the lyrics.
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BlenderThe tracks are catchy, meaty and modern. [Sep 2007, p.131]
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The title cut is the best of the lot, an anthem about the beautiful chaos of family life where wine is sipped from a jelly jar and “peanut butter is everywhere.”
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Though it lacks their star power and radio-ready hooks, it offers instead songs that are written and sung with a heartfelt authenticity neither McGraw nor Hill can rival.
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Tim McGraw's country-radio-friendly production weighs down the disc.... McKenna sounds best stripped down and rough around the edges. Both her voice and writing deserve more modest frames.
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Even this seasoned songstress occasionally gets stuck in unglamorous midtempo muck.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 0 out of 8
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Negative: 1 out of 8
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PeterW.Sep 13, 2007
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MattD.Aug 28, 2007
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KevinF.Aug 24, 2007