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Free Music Notes for Buddy Jewell

Free Music Review: Can a debut album really be this good?
Hit: 5 Stars

I admit: I waited to buy this album. Why? Although I enjoyed "Help Pour Out the Rain" (how can you not?), I wanted to see if Buddy Jewell was a serious singer, or was just playing out his fame from Nashville Star, which I never bothered to watch. The praise for him grew, and his album and song sold...and then "Sweet Sothern Comfort" hit airwaves, and that was the deciding factor.

Yes, I bought the album primarily because of that song. It's one of the best I've heard this year--and when you think of some of the good stuff released this year, you'll see how much of an honor that is. But listening to this album, I came to realize that Jewell has one of those uniquely country voices, pure and down-home. He could stand there and sing the friggin' phonebook, and I think I would pay to listen to it.

There's a wide selection of stuff on this album, too. There's up-tempo rockers like "I Wanna Thank Everyone" and the foot-tapping "One Step At A Time" and "I Can Get By." There's the surprisingly-Celtic "O'Reilly's Luck" (one of the album's best, maybe because of the fact it stands out so much) and the down-home "Lacey's Song" and "Sourthern Comfort." There's the traditional "Abilene On Her Mind" and "One In A Row," as well as the stirring rendition of "Today I Started Loving You Again" with Miranda Lambert (is she from Nashville Star too?). The romantic, all-too-true ballad "You Know How Women Are" finishes the album off, while the heartbreaking tearjerkers "One in A Row" and "Why We Said Goodbye" (much better than Tim McGraw's version on his album "Setting this Circus Down") fill in a gap that otherwise would have been sorely missed.

Did I miss anything? If I did, trust me--it's good, and I left it out only on accident.

So, yes, in case you're still wondering, Buddy Jewell is the real thing. His songwriting is simple and to the point, in a time when many Nasvhille songwriters tend to be cryptic (though, ask me, they can leave that to Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen; country music doesn't need to be hard to comprehend). His voice is that which you have been yearning for for years and years. He is, ladies and gents, country is as country does. Check it out.

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