Chris Young - Neon - Music & Performance - CD

Grammy-nominated country star Chris Young releases his third studio album, NEON. The album is led by the smash single, "Tomorrow," which is the fastest-rising single of his career. "Tomorrow" reached Top 15 in just 9 weeks and continues to rise to the top of the charts. Young has emerged as a fan favorite with three consecutive #1 singles at country radio and has spent the last year on tour with Rascal Flatts. This summer, he will join Jason Aldean's sold out My Kinda Party Tour!

If Chris Young has a signature, it's his plainspoken likableness. Not the flashiest of singers, Young certainly isn't lacking in personality, something that goes a long way in distinguishing his clean commercial country. Walking a thin line between hard country and its sweeter pop cousin, Young sells hooks and sentimentality without pushing too hard, leaving just enough grit and twang to keep his country grounded. He perfects this trick on his third album, 2011's Neon, a sturdy collection of tunes with no frills but plenty of appeal. Young often does slip into some sappiness, reminiscing about times spent fixing the car with his father over a "Flashlight" and remember words of wisdom from his granddaddy on "Old Love Feels Now," yet his writer's eye for telling details and his conversational delivery prevent the tunes from getting treacly, a trait that also comes in handy on the love songs and heartbroken honky tonk, the latter providing such fine moments as the first single "Tomorrow" and the barroom ballad title track. That ease also surfaces on the livelier moments, when he lays back on the sunny "I Can Take It from There," when he rides a bouncing backroads groove on "Lost," and when he kicks up some serious twang on "Save Water, Drink Beer," whose sense of humor recalls Brad Paisley. Unlike Paisley or other peers like Keith Urban and Blake Shelton, Chris Young has no grander ambitions than being a reliable pure country singer, one who aims to please without pandering, one who stays country without resisting the charms of a strong melody. If Neon does anything, it proves that Young can manage this delicate balance all the while seeming like it's no trouble at all. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

Performer	Chris Young
Music genre	Country
Music subgenre	POP COUNTRY
Music release type	Album
Media format	CD
Original release date	2011-07-11
Edition	Standard Edition
Language	English
Is collectible	Y
Number of tracks	10
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Series title	Chris Young - Neon COMPACT DISCS
Awards won	Grammy-nominated
Track listing	I Can Take It from There, Lost, Tomorrow, Save Water, Drink Beer, Neon, Old Love Feels New, You, Flashlight, When She's on, She's Got This Thing About Her
Record label	RCA
Target audience	Adult
Composer	Chris Young
Songwriter	Chris Young
Music producer	James Stroud
Number in series	3
Occasion	All Occasion
Track name	Tomorrow
Duration	32.28 min
Digital audio file format	MP3
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N