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Phil Vassar - Shaken Not Stirred

Primary Artist
Phil Vassar
Album Title
Shaken Not Stirred
Release Date
September 28, 2004 
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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Phil Vassar had his breakthrough in 2002 with his second album, American Child, a mature set of contemporary country-pop that established that the former professional songwriter had the chops to be a performing star in his own right. For its 2004 follow-up, Shaken Not Stirred, Vassar loosens things up a little bit, borrowing a little from Kenny Chesney's laid-back party-ready style. While he never indulges in the Jimmy Buffett worship of the island-obsessed Chesney, he does share a similar fondness for '70s arena rock and singer/songwriters, and he's injected Shaken Not Stirred with a heavy dose of humor and good times that only rarely surfaced on American ChildRead More