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.
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
-- 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. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine