Road Less Traveled
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Album: Road Less Traveled
# Song Title   Time
1)    Doin' Fine
2)    My Kinda People
3)    Three
4)    Road Less Traveled
5)    Queen of Hearts
6)    Think Outside the Boy
7)    Painting Pillows
8)    Next Boyfriend
9)    Crashin' the Boys' Club
10)    Same Day Different Bottle
11)    Holding the Other
12)    Pretty
 

Album: Road Less Traveled
# Song Title   Time
1)    Doin' Fine
2)    My Kinda People
3)    Three
4)    Road Less Traveled
5)    Queen of Hearts
6)    Think Outside the Boy
7)    Painting Pillows
8)    Next Boyfriend
9)    Crashin' the Boys' Club
10)    Same Day Different Bottle
11)    Holding the Other
12)    Pretty
 
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  • Personnel: Lauren Alaina (background vocals); Carl Miner (acoustic guitar, banjo, bouzouki, mandolin); Pat McGrath (acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin); Derek Wells (electric guitar, banjo, mandolin); Jerry McPherson, J.T. Corenflos (electric guitar); David Dorn, Dave Cohen , Jason Webb (piano, Hammond b-3 organ, Wurlitzer organ, synthesizer); Busbee (piano, keyboards, programming, background vocals); Evan Hutchings (drums, percussion, programming); Aaron Sterling (drums, percussion); Jesse Frasure, Eric Olson, Mason Levy, Lindsay Rimes, Casey Brown (programming); Kristen Rogers, Emily Weisband, Erika Attwater, Seth Ennis, Stephcynie Curry, Morgan Hebert, Russell Terrell, Kim Keyes, Carolyn Dawn Johnson (background vocals).
  • Recording information: Blackbird Studios, Nashville, TN; Eastside, Nashville, TN; Sound Emporium, Nashville, TN.
  • Lauren Alaina traveled a long road to her second album, taking six years to deliver a sequel to her 2011 debut. Blame the delay on vagaries of the marketplace and also a 2014 vocal surgery, two elements that ensure a slow working pace, but the upside of this half-decade hiatus is that Road Less Traveled almost plays like a second debut album. It announces a new Lauren Alaina, one who is happy to be a country diva in the vein of Carrie Underwood. Wildflower, her 2011 album, also carried a debt to Underwood but it retained a bit of a twang, whereas Road Less Traveled is a big, bright country confection. Alaina co-wrote every one of the 12 songs and whether they're ballads or chipper pop tunes, they're usually sturdy numbers. She may drift into the saccharine when she slows the tempo -- the closing "Pretty" is a self-empowerment anthem that attempts to spin Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" toward Middle America -- but the faster cuts are usually jubilant and help propel Road Less Traveled, turning it into a strong modern country-pop album. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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