Editing Joe Diffie (section)

==Musical styles==
Steve Huey of Allmusic wrote that Diffie "lent his traditional sensibilities to humorous, rock-tinged novelties and plaintive ballads."<ref name="allmusic" /> His early albums for Epic mostly consisted of ballads, but starting with ''[[Honky Tonk Attitude]]'', he began to include more up-tempo and novelty numbers.<ref name="allmusic" /> Starting with ''[[A Night to Remember (Joe Diffie album)|A Night to Remember]]'', Diffie returned to a more ballad-oriented sound; Mike Kraski, then the senior vice president of sales for Sony Music Nashville, thought that the albums before it had over-emphasized his novelty releases.<ref name="night" /> Diffie's influence on music was recognized with his name being mentioned in the 2019 hit song ''[[Raised on Country]]'' by artist [[Chris Young (singer)|Chris Young]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Shafer |first1=Elise |title=Here Are the Lyrics to Chris Young's 'Raised On Country' |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/lyrics/chris-young-raised-on-country-lyrics-8527460/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=June 10, 2024}}</ref>

[[Alanna Nash]] regularly compared Diffie's voice to that of [[George Jones]]. In her review of ''[[A Thousand Winding Roads]]'', she contrasted the album with [[Mark Chesnutt]]'s debut ''[[Too Cold at Home]]'' by saying, "While Chesnutt merely takes his inspiration from Jones, Diffie mimics Jones' delivery&nbsp;... But now that he's making records himself, [his vocal imitation] drops him to the rear of the pack, as a stylist with little style of his own."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20199859,00.html|title=''Too Cold at Home''/''A Thousand Winding Roads'' review|last=Nash|first=Alanna|date=December 17, 1990|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|access-date=July 20, 2010|archive-date=December 21, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091221081717/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20199859,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> She thought that Diffie began to move away from his George Jones influences on ''A Night to Remember''.<ref name="ewnight">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,273462,00.html|title=''A Night to Remember'' review|last=Nash|first=Alanna|date=May 21, 1999|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=July 21, 2010|archive-date=October 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019022641/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,273462,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> William Ruhlmann wrote that Diffie "has put together a decade-plus career in country largely on his ability to succeed" in "scour[ing] Nashville publishers for 10 good compositions in the established style", and that he was an "adequate but undistinguished singer."<ref name="another">{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r558459|pure_url=yes}}|title=''In Another World'' review|last=Ruhlmann|first=William|work=Allmusic|access-date=July 21, 2010}}</ref>