Original sentence: Rough Guides' volume on country music declares the album "a brilliantly conceived chunk of country that stands as one of the finest honky-tonk records ever cut in Nashville", while country music critic Bill Malone went broader in calling Out of Hand "one of the greatest honky-tonk country albums ever recorded", The year after the album's release, Time magazine, noting that "all three of his albums have been gushed over by critics", dubbed Stewart "the current king of honkytonk"
Edited sentence: " The New York Times, looking back when Stewart died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2003, simply called it "a honky-tonk classic".Rough Guides' volume on country music declares the album "a brilliantly conceived chunk of country that stands as one of the finest honky-tonk records ever cut in Nashville", while country music critic Bill Malone went broader in calling Out of Hand "one of the greatest honky-tonk country albums ever recorded.The year after the album's release, Time magazine, noting that "all three of his albums have been gushed over by critics", dubbed Stewart "the current king of honkytonk"