The key to Luke Bryan’s success isn’t much different from other top country singers: He finds some great songs he knows he can sing with unassailable authority and cuts them. Bryan certainly makes it sound effortless as he rolls through this amiably eclectic material that he performs more like an active participant than an observer. A little bit of lust has always served Bryan well, and that’s explicitly clear on funk-flavored opener “That’s My Kind of Night” and gritty rocker “Out Like That.” But he doesn’t always get the girl (“Roller Coaster,” “I See You”), which adds some emotional depth and balance, as do sentimental anthems like “We Run This Town” and “Blood Brothers.” The title track, meanwhile, cloaks Bryan in majestic power-ballad orchestration that suits him as comfortably as the spartan arrangement of “Drink a Beer.”
