BLACK VINYL

Ain't My Last Rodeo is only the second full-length album from Riley Green, but it sounds like the country singer has been at it for longer than six years. It's not that Green sounds old as much as comfortable, content to mine the same throwback vein that marked Different 'Round Here, his 2019 debut. By most respects, this album follows the same blueprint as the debut, delivering a bunch of songs about country, cars, roots, and raising. Green has a friendly, almost humble, tinge to his voice that makes his boasts about how things are "Different 'Round Here" -- delivered as a duet with Luke Combs -- not sound threatening. He sings with a matter-of-fact shrug, a nonchalance that melds well with the big, tuneful ballads and anthems designed for open roads and waiting rooms alike. There may not be much fashionable about Green -- he can even manage to bend country-rapper Jelly Roll to suit his own purposes -- but he plays this kind of retro-minded country-pop with an amiable ease.

A1        Damn Country Music
A2        They Don't Make 'Em Like That No More
A3        Mississippi Or Me
A4        Different 'Round Here
A5        Ain't Like I Can Hide It
A6        Copenhagen In A Cadillac
B1        Damn Good Day To Leave
B2        My Last Rodeo
B3        Workin' On Me
B4        Raised Up Right
B5        God Made A Good Ol' Boy
B6        Ain't My Damn To Give