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Blaine Larson
Rockin' You Tonight | BMG
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WERNER TRIESCHMANN
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January 22, 2007
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By the ripe old age of 20, Blaine Larsen had graduated from his Tacoma (Washington) high school and released two full-length country albums. The latest has him carrying on his Music Row forefathers’ habit of never letting a year pass without putting out an album or three. And like those forefathers, he’s a stone-cold pro, as Rockin’ You Tonight makes clear. Equipped with a silky baritone, guitar skills, and a deft sense of humor, he can elevate even suspect material. The highlight here is his searing cover of Mac Davis’s 1972 hit “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me,” a song about an older man pushing away a “hot-blooded woman child”; given his own age, it’s a nice choice. Sure, like most Nashville records, this one has filler stuffed in among the keepers. You can count on more of both when, surely, another Larsen album arrives later this year.
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