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Billy Currington is not the kind of contemporary country singer who feels a need to be visually redundant. Leaving his hat and boots at home, Currington, clad in plain white T-shirt and blue jeans strikes us as a regular, blue-collar guy from Georgia who just happens to have a certain way with his smooth baritone and a clever turn of phrase. This self-titled debut is a well-balanced effort featuring both good timey up-tempo numbers with a sense of humor ("Off My Rocker," "Where the Girls Are") and moving ballads of emotional poignance ("Hangin' Around" and "Time with You").
The hit single "Walk a Little Straighter" tells the story of a young boy pleading with his father, whom he otherwise adores, to sober up. On "That's Just Me," the singer expresses simple, straightforward nuggets by way of explaining himself: "I've never even been to Mars but I'm a man/And I accept the fact that women are just hard to understandàbut that's just me." With classic neo-trad country backing throughout (steel guitar, fiddle, twangy Fender, and extremely minimal string pads), Currington makes himself right at home on the charts with this heartfelt, convincing, and very promising debut.
Recorded at The Castle, Sound Station and Backstage Studios, Nashville, Tennessee.
Personnel: Billy Currington (vocals); John D. Willis (acoustic guitar, banjo); Brent Mason (electric guitar); Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Stuart Duncan (fiddle); Gary Prim, Gordon Mote (keyboards); W. David Smith (bass); Eddie Bayers (drums); John W. Ryles (background vocals).
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Billy Currington Music Review Purchase Billy Currington CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Chris Cagle CD (2003) Enhanced CD
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Despite seeing a promising career almost get capsized after his original label sank under the weight of corporate restructuring, Chris Cagle bounced back with a self-titled sophomore effort that hints at an effusive romantic side beneath his rough-and-tumble, blue-collar side. A good indication of how lovestruck he can get reverberates through the leadoff single "What a Beautiful Day," where Bruce Hornsby-like piano accompaniment pushes along this chronological layout of a successful relationship. The sparsely arranged "Look At What I've Done" with its mournful fiddle and crying string section sits at the other end of the spectrum as a busted-up affair lies in shards.
"Just Love Me" finds the progressive-minded country crooner pleading for love despite his shortcomings, "I'd Be Lying" deals with overcoming male pride to reveal true feelings and "Growin' Love" ties it all up in a neat fairytale ending. It's not ...
| | Dierks Bentley CD (2003) Enhanced CD
Billy Currington
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Though the front cover of country singer/songwriter Dierks Bentley's debut album finds him posing with a floppy-eared dog and looking like a prime-time TV star, he's considerably hipper than that image might suggest. For one thing, he doesn't employ the members of the Nashville studio mafia who seem to crop up on virtually every major-label country album. For another, he's no pre-fab artist; he co-wrote almost every song here, and for outside material he turned to estimable country mavericks Buddy & Julie Miller ("My Love Will Follow You"). The production is kept agreeably low-key, and there are no Journey-with-steel-guitar power ballad abominations. Bentley shows his true colors most plainly at the album's end, closing with a self-penned bluegrass-flavored tune where he's backed by none other than the legendary Del McCoury Band. Let's see how that one plays on CMT.
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Recorded at Station West and Ocean Way Studios, ...
| | Gary Allan See If I Care CD (2003)
Billy Currington
$11.79 
This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.
On his first couple of albums for Decca, Gary Allan's talent was somewhat submerged in assembly-line Nashville production. After a label change, his third disc, 1999's SMOKE RINGS IN THE DARK found him fulfilling his potential with a rootsy, accessible New Traditionalist sound. A few years down the line, he continues to progress, bucking the Nashville Nazis along the way.
The album opener "Drinkin' Dark Whiskey," co-written by hard-country rebel Mike Henderson, is so full of fierce electric guitar and tough singing, it might have fallen off a Steve Earle record. The terse, tortured "See If I Care" sounds like a cross between Dwight Yoakam and TUNNEL OF LOVE-era Springsteen. "Songs About Rain," penned by another country upstart, Pat McLaughlin, cleverly skewers overused song metaphors. There are no charging power ballads on SEE IF I CARE and no hokey, cheap-shot ...
| | Josh Turner Long Black Train CD (2003)
Billy Currington
$10.25
Josh Turner seems to belong to a generation of country singers debuting in the late-1990s/early 2000s who were influenced by the middlebrow New Traditionalism of artists like Randy Travis and George Strait in the '80s. Accordingly, Turner's first offering, LONG BLACK TRAIN, strikes an uneasy bargain with Nashville ...
| | Billy Currington Doin' Somethin' Right CD (2005)
Billy Currington
$10.45
The follow-up to his successful self-titled debut, DOIN' SOMETHIN' RIGHT finds country singer Billy Currington lining his rural-minded tunes with more of a pure pop sound, as evidenced on the smooth ballad "She's Got a Way with Me" (featuring Doobie Brother Michael McDonald). Although Currington belts out "I Wanna Be a Hillbilly" on the twangy opening ...
| | Josh Turner Your Man CD (2006)
Billy Currington
$10.39
Josh Turner made a splash on the country music scene in 2003 with his hardline traditionalist debut LONG BLACK TRAIN, ...
| | Buck Owens Sings Harlan Howard CD (1961)
Billy Currington
$11.79 
Harlan Howard has composed some of the best and most durable songs in country music, many of which have become standards. In 1961, Buck took on the Howard song-book with his trademark Bakersfield no-frills style, and came up with a genuine Classic. Owens' keening voice (lead & harmonies), Ralph Mooney's gut-wrenching pedal steel guitar and the shuffling & crackling rhythm section bring vitality and urgency to Howard tunes like "Heartaches by the Number," Keys in the Mailbox" and "Pick Me Up on Your Way Down." This set virtually ...
| | David Lee Murphy Out With A Bang CD (1995)
Billy Currington
$6.89
Out With a Bang should have had one extra word added to the front of its title -- "Starting." This debut solo ...
| | Miraisentai Timeranger CD (Import)
Billy Currington
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| | Mark Newton Hillbilly Hemingway CD (2006)
Billy Currington
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| | Nikucue Witch's Satisfaction CD (2008)
Billy Currington
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| | Marianne Kreitlow Garlic & Other Forces Of Nature CD (2008)
Billy Currington
$18.99
Garlic & Other Forces of Nature (adventurous-folk genre) is well suited for mirth-seeking lovers ...
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