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Kid Rock
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Release Date:11/11/2003
Label:Atlantic / Wea
UPC:075678368523

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    Very good songs, but pretty mellow

    By Hans  Nov 10, 2003 | 14 out of 16 found this Kid Rock review helpful

    Pros: Songs are better than most of his previous efforts.

    Cons: This coulda been called Kid Country....Very mellow.

    Most of this CD is pretty mellow for Kid Rock. Lot's of country and mellow (like the Eagles) sounding tunes).

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    By Tim  Nov 11, 2003 | 3 out of 3 found this Kid Rock review helpful

    Pros: Some good mellow Rock

    Cons: ITS TOO MELLOW WHERE'S KID ROCK??

    Good music...like the remake of "Feel like makin Love" but too many slow songs. I wanted the American Bad A** but he didn't show up on this album.

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  • All Music Guide

    Kid Rock gained his fame as a whitetrash rapper, but he retained his fame as a whitetrash rocker, using the breakthrough of 1998's Devil Without a Cause to refashion himself as a modernday bluecollar rocker, as comfortable with crunching bluesy riffs as he is with heartbroken country. The former Bob Ritchie started this transformation on 2001's Cocky, an enjoyably jumbled album that didn't quite take off until "Picture," his straight country duet with Sheryl Crow, was embraced by country radio, reviving the album and even bringing him nominations from the CMA. Kid was already in the process of abandoning metal and, to a lesser extent, hiphop, so he seized this opportunity to become a fullout rocker and outlaw country singer with his next album, 2003's Kid Rock. Many of Kid's signatures are still in place the bragging, the boasting, the songs about sex, fame, and rock roll, the hard riffs, the selfmythology but it no longer sounds like a mix of David Lee Roth and the Beastie Boys (ev...en if the latter's Rod Carew rhyme from "Sure Shot" is lifted for "Intro," just moments after a "So Whatcha Want" reference); it sounds as if Hank Williams Jr. and David Allan Coe are his new role models. Both Hank and Coe have a similar sense of inflated ego and penchant for namedropping that borders on selfparody, and Kid Rock follows the same path here, particularly on the numerous rockers rockers that range from the heavy, heavy "Jackson, Mississippi" to laidback, looselimbed boogies like "Rock n' Roll Pain Train." He wisely plays up the sensitive side of "Picture," too, borrowing from DAC's soulsearching ballads and Bob Seger's introspective numbers. He even revives "Hard Night for Sarah," a song Seger wrote and recorded in 1979 but never released (something that likely wouldn't have happened if he hadn't switched management to Seger's longtime partner, Punch Andrews), and the tune, along with the similarly effective original "Single Father" (inexplicably listed as a bonus track, when there is no other release of the album without it), gives Kid Rock an emotional underpinning it needs, since so much of this is nothing but goodtime music. Of course, there's nothing wrong with goodtime music, and Kid is proud to make party music which he should be, since he does it well. Song for song, this is betterwritten and harderrocking than Cocky, and while it's easy to wish that Kid was still as witty and funny as he on Devil Without a Cause, there's a certain cornball charm to his unabashed silliness and how he treats every rock roll cliché as if it was a newfound truth. That's the power of Kid Rock's personality he may blatantly borrow from his influences, and he may recycle and celebrate shopworn clichés, but he does it with flair, style, good hooks, and charisma that shines through on each track. It's what makes Kid Rock both the artist and the album kind of irresistible. As silly, foulmouthed, and obvious as he is, he does it so well you just can't help but like the guy. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Kid Rock

One of the unlikeliest success stories in rock at the turn of the millennium, Detroit rap-rocker Kid Rock shot to superstardom with his fourth full-length album, 1998's Devil Without a Cause. What made it so shocking was that Rock had recorded his first demo a full decade before, been booted off major label Jive following his Beastie Boys-ish 1990 debut Grits Sandwiches... Read more