"National Working Woman's Holiday" was a perfect example of Kershaw's strengths and weaknesses: few people, if any, had sung about the psychological toll the economic...
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Sammy Kershaw had only been recording for four years when he released The Hits, Chapter 1, but its appearance didn't seem premature. During that time, he had racked up a...
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Sammy Kershaw knows the sights and smells of true honky tonks, but he keeps moving further away from the soulful slur and fun-loving style that made him sound so promising a...
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Sammy Kershaw's Hits: Chapter 2 contains several favorites released in the mid- to late '90s, including "Meant to Be," "Vidalia," and "Love of My Life." Pairing this disc...
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Native Louisiana Sammy Kershaw seems to have had a hard time lately remembering his musical roots. Though he's a George Jones fanatic and third cousin to legendary Cajun...
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Louisianan Sammy Kershaw deserves credit for anchoring his new album on ballads: a full nine of Maybe Not Tonight's 12 tracks are slow love songs. Don't let the pace fool...
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This record is pure Nashville by the numbers. Not a displeasing affair, but certainly not inspired either. Covering all bases, there is a romantic duet with Lorrie Morgan...
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"Cadillace Style," Kershaw's first single, started him off strong. This album, which made his Jones influence explicit with a cover of "What Am I Worth," also produced the...
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The more you know about Sammy Kershaw, the more there is to like about his albums. Though Kershaw doesn't write his songs, he makes some of the most autobiographical albums...
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Real life lovers singing duets together in country music is nothing new, but this 12-track collection does offer something fresh -- a wide-ranging group of songs from...
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The title pretty much explains it all on Sammy Kershaw's Coverin' the Hits. This is not a collection of his hit singles, it's a compilation of covers Kershaw cut throughout...
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Sammy Kershaw's 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium Collection essentially gathers the highlights of his two Mercury greatest-hits collections, The Hits: Chapter 1 and...
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