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Sweet Southern Sugar

Kid Rock

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Hopping over to Broken Bow Records after a one-album spell at Warner, Kid Rock doubles down on the contention that he's now a country artist -- a notion that was first made explicit on 2015's First Kiss but stretches back to at least 2010's Born Free, when the former Bob Ritchie attempted to make a Bob Seger album with Rick Rubin. Sweet Southern Sugar still has some hardscrabble Detroit in its soul but, like its title suggests, its heart is in Dixie, which is where Kid imagines his audience in 2017 also lies. Certainly, Sweet Southern Sugar is loaded with red state signifiers, but it's not a political album per se, as Kid Rock is simply celebrating all the things that make libs cry. At times, this makes his lyrics play like a profane game of Mad Libs -- particularly on the clumsy "Bawitadaba" re-write "Greatest Show on Earth" and "Grandpa's Jam," whose title seems like an excuse for the song's corny rhymes -- but the words aren't nearly as important as the throwback sound of Sweet Southern Sugar. Steeped in the seedy '70s, Sweet Southern Sugar deliberately evokes the greasy blues of ZZ Top but drifts toward such hammy rockers as Black Oak Arkansas, occasionally winding up in Ram Jam territory. As retro as this album feels, Rock still finds space for plenty of old-school raps and a reinvention of the Four Tops' "Sugar Pie Honey Bunch" as a slow jam -- sounds that may nominally be fresher than Rock's old-fashioned hard rock, but which are still rooted firmly in the past. Living in the past is the key not just to Sweet Southern Sugar but Kid Rock's reinvention as a country singer. The music hasn't changed much, nor has his swagger, but the times have, leaving Kid Rock sounding older and squarer than his years.

© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo

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1
Greatest Show On Earth Explicit
00:03:59

Kid Rock, Composer, MainArtist

© 2017 Top Dog Records, Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2017 Top Dog Records, Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

2
Po-Dunk Explicit
00:04:31

Kid Rock, Composer, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist - Justin Neibank, Producer

© 2017 Top Dog Records, Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2017 Kid Rock under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

3
Tennessee Mountain Top Explicit
00:04:34

Kid Rock, Composer, MainArtist

© 2017 Top Dog Records, Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2017 Top Dog Records, Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

4
I Wonder
00:03:18

Herschel Boone, Background Vocals - Jason Krause, Electric Guitar - Shannon Curfman, Background Vocals - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - JUstin Niebank, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Drew Bollman, RecordingEngineer - Aaron Julison, Bass Guitar - Marlon Young, Composer, Electric Guitar, Writer - Stefanie Eulinberg, Drums - Jimmie Bones, Piano - Kid Rock, Composer, MainArtist - Mike Clark, Recording - Stacy Michelle, Background Vocals - Jerry Roe, Drums - Kam Luchterhand, Recording - Dave Cohen, Synth Bass - Derek Wells, Electric Guitar - Freddie Beauregard, Tambourine

© 2017 Top Dog Records, Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2017 Top Dog Records, Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

5
American Rock 'n Roll
00:04:35

Herschel Boone, Background Vocals - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - JUstin Niebank, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Drew Bollman, RecordingEngineer - Marlon Young, Guitar - Jimmie Bones, Bass - Kid Rock, Composer, MainArtist - Mike Clark, Recording - Rob McNelley, Guitar - Stacy Michelle, Background Vocals - Jerry Roe, Drums - Danny Rader, Background Vocals - Kristen Rogers, Background Vocals - Kam Luchterhand, Recording - Joey Hyde, Background Vocals - Dave Cohen, Keyboards - Derek Wells, Guitar - Aaron Eshuis, Background Vocals - Stephcynie Curry, Background Vocals - Morgan Hebert, Background Vocals

© 2017 Top Dog Records, Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2017 Top Dog Records, Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

6
Back To The Otherside Explicit
00:04:51

Tim Lauer, Keyboards - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - JUstin Niebank, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Drew Bollman, RecordingEngineer - Marlon Young, Electric Guitar - Kid Rock, Composer, MainArtist - Mike Clark, Recording - Jerry Roe, Drums - Kam Luchterhand, Recording - Dave Cohen, Keyboards - Derek Wells, Electric Guitar - Rob McNeely, Electric Guitar

© 2017 Top Dog Records, Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2017 Top Dog Records, Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

7
Raining Whiskey
00:03:59

Herschel Boone, Background Vocals - Tim Lauer, Piano, Strings, Mellotron - Shannon Curfman, Background Vocals - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - JUstin Niebank, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Drew Bollman, RecordingEngineer - Marlon Young, Electric Guitar - Jimmie Bones, Bass - Kid Rock, Composer, MainArtist - Mike Clark, Recording - Stacy Michelle, Background Vocals - Jerry Roe, Drums - Kam Luchterhand, Recording - Dave Cohen, Piano, Synthesizer - Derek Wells, Electric Guitar - Rob McNeely, Electric Guitar

© 2017 Top Dog Records, Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2017 Top Dog Records, Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

8
Stand The Pain
00:04:44

Herschel Boone, Background Vocals - Tim Lauer, Keyboards - Shannon Curfman, Background Vocals - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - JUstin Niebank, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Drew Bollman, RecordingEngineer - Marlon Young, Electric Guitar - Jimmie Bones, Bass Guitar - Kid Rock, Composer, MainArtist - Mike Clark, Recording - Rob McNelley, Electric Guitar - Stacy Michelle, Background Vocals - Jerry Roe, Drums - Kam Luchterhand, Recording - Dave Cohen, Piano - Derek Wells, Electric Guitar

© 2017 Top Dog Records, Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2017 Top Dog Records, Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

9
Sugar Pie Honey Bunch
00:04:11

Tim Lauer, Synthesizer - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - Tony Lucido, Bass - JUstin Niebank, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Drew Bollman, RecordingEngineer - Kid Rock, Composer, MainArtist - Mike Clark, Recording - Jim Brown, Piano - Jerry Roe, Drums - Kam Luchterhand, Recording - Derek Wells, Electric Guitar - Rob McNeely, Electric Guitar

© 2017 Top Dog Records, Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2017 Top Dog Records, Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

10
Grandpa's Jam Explicit
00:04:14

Herschel Boone, Background Vocals - Shannon Curfman, Background Vocals - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - JUstin Niebank, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Drew Bollman, RecordingEngineer - Marlon Young, Guitar, Bass - Kid Rock, Composer, MainArtist - Mike Clark, Recording - Stacy Michelle, Background Vocals - Kam Luchterhand, Recording - Dave Cohen, Keyboards - John Paul Cappelletty, Drums

© 2017 Top Dog Records, Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2017 Top Dog Records, Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

Album review

Hopping over to Broken Bow Records after a one-album spell at Warner, Kid Rock doubles down on the contention that he's now a country artist -- a notion that was first made explicit on 2015's First Kiss but stretches back to at least 2010's Born Free, when the former Bob Ritchie attempted to make a Bob Seger album with Rick Rubin. Sweet Southern Sugar still has some hardscrabble Detroit in its soul but, like its title suggests, its heart is in Dixie, which is where Kid imagines his audience in 2017 also lies. Certainly, Sweet Southern Sugar is loaded with red state signifiers, but it's not a political album per se, as Kid Rock is simply celebrating all the things that make libs cry. At times, this makes his lyrics play like a profane game of Mad Libs -- particularly on the clumsy "Bawitadaba" re-write "Greatest Show on Earth" and "Grandpa's Jam," whose title seems like an excuse for the song's corny rhymes -- but the words aren't nearly as important as the throwback sound of Sweet Southern Sugar. Steeped in the seedy '70s, Sweet Southern Sugar deliberately evokes the greasy blues of ZZ Top but drifts toward such hammy rockers as Black Oak Arkansas, occasionally winding up in Ram Jam territory. As retro as this album feels, Rock still finds space for plenty of old-school raps and a reinvention of the Four Tops' "Sugar Pie Honey Bunch" as a slow jam -- sounds that may nominally be fresher than Rock's old-fashioned hard rock, but which are still rooted firmly in the past. Living in the past is the key not just to Sweet Southern Sugar but Kid Rock's reinvention as a country singer. The music hasn't changed much, nor has his swagger, but the times have, leaving Kid Rock sounding older and squarer than his years.

© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo

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