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Buddy Jewell
Nashville Star winner Buddy Jewell, with his Waylon-esque good looks and his tender-tough demeanor, so reminiscent of Merle Haggard, may be the most perfect new mainstream country singer of the decade. His self-penned "Help Pour Out the Rain (Lacey's Song)" made history as the highest-charting debut single by a new artist since Wynonna's "She Is His Only Need" (1992), partly because of its sweet parent-child dynamic, but also because Jewell knows how to emotionally connect with listeners. Steeped in tradition in his native Arkansas and seasoned as a Nashville demo singer for the past eight years, he arrives at his debut as a full-blown artist, commanding on the deep-dish, rootsy material and confident with the MOR ballads. His sonorous baritone-bass gives wings to even the most routine songs, though producer Clint Black has outfitted him with some very fetching tunes, indeed, including the left-field "O'Reilly Luck," a Celtic-laced story-song about an Irishman who curses his fate when illness forces his family from boarding the Titanic. Jewell covers the usual romantic topics--heartbreak, the difference between the sexes--and offers a tip of the Stetson (and a little flip of the bird) in the good-natured "I Wanna Thank Everyone," which acknowledges his drive to succeed when everyone else dismissed him. Blessed with underdog charm through and through, this guy is a natural. --Alanna Nash
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Tracks| 1 | I Wanna Thank Everyone | | 2 | Help Pour Out the Rain (Lacey's Song) | | 3 | Sweet Southern Comfort | | 4 | Today I Started Loving You Again - Buddy Jewell, Miranda Lambert | | 5 | Abilene on Her Mind | | 6 | One in a Row | | 7 | O'Reilly Luck | | 8 | Why We Said Goodbye | | 9 | One Step at a Time | | 10 | I Can Get By | | 11 | You Know How Women Are |
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