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Buddy
Jewell -
Buddy Jewell
CD Review by Cheryl Harvey Hill
 CD
Review:
Buddy Jewell's rapid
rise up the charts, and ever increasing popularity, is proof that the
two million plus votes he garnered to become the first Nashville Star
winner wasn't a fluke. America has spoken and I sure hope the powers
that be in Music City are listening ... and looking.
The CD starts off with the tongue-in cheek "I Wanna Thank
Everyone" which could easily become the anthem for 99% of the
artists who have managed to succeed in Nashville in spite of being told
by someone in the industry that they would never make it. The song is a
clever ode to every artists resolve and resolve is obviously no stranger
to Jewell.
Nashville Star wasn't the first competition where Jewell had walked away
as the winner. The ruggedly handsome singer/song writer had already won
the Dallas regional June Jam Talent Search and been proclaimed the male
vocalist champion on TV's Star Search, twice, before heading off to
Nashville. For the next eight years he made a living singing demos for
some of Nashville's biggest stars. All that hard work and drive
has finally paid off; and deservedly so.
Jewell's debut single, the self-penned "Help Pour Out the Rain
(Lacey's Song)," has touched hearts across America and is the
highest charting debut by a new artist since the launch of the Nielsen
system in 1990. The album, produced by country star Clint Black,
is sure to produce additional hits. This CD contains eleven songs that
are as country comfortable as Grandma's front porch swing and as
satisfying as a tall glass of homemade lemonade. Although "One
In A Row" was my personal favorite; I enjoyed the entire CD --
and that's a rarity for me.
Buddy Jewell track list:
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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 (Duet with Miranda Lambert)
5 Abilene On Her Mind
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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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Rating:
Buy
It!
 Website
Review by Jim Weaver:
Nice looking site! A little dark for my tastes and the image on the main
page would look better if they used a professionally done headshot but
there's no FLASH used so it loads pretty quickly. The one thing that
that I'm still shaking my head over is; if you're a country star, and
Buddy certainly is, how do you not have a page on your website dedicated
to your music? Track list, audio clips, lyrics, a little blurb about
each song maybe... something! There's nothing, zilch, nada, zip... no
mention of his debut album at all. I don't get it, before his recent
site redesign he had two previous CD's available to buy online, now
nothing! There's no mention of his debut CD with Sony or his two
previous independent releases. The site would have gotten a Thumbs-Ups
if it weren't for that.
Update!!!
After an e-mail chat with Buddy's webmaster I found out that I was
right, the music was there and will be back soon after some changes are
made. So in that case...
Rating:
Nice Work!
Please visit the website
for yourself.
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