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A Nashville country rebel in the mold of Travis Tritt -- in other words, a defanged and marketing-driven pretty boy whose punkin head David Allan Coe or Waylon Jennings would smash a beer bottle over just on general principle -- Jake Owen makes his debut with the utterly formulaic Startin' with Me. Opening tracks "Bad in Me" and "Yee Haw" try so desperately hard to establish Owen's image as a bad-ass hellraiser that they finally become comical, and not the knowingly self-mocking Big & Rich kind of comical, either. Every note on Startin' with Me is as perfectly placed as Owen's artfully mussed hair in the reg'lar joe glamour shot on the front cover. Owen and producer Jimmy Ritchey carefully check off all the country radio clichés: Drinking ballad? Check! Cry for the good Lord's deliverance? You betcha! Leering misogyny disguised as praise for the female of the species? Got yer "Something About a Woman" right here, pal! Naturally, something so perfectly contrived can't help but be at least modestly successful on a commercial level.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
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Jake Owen, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist - Brett James, Composer, Lyricist - Jimmy Ritchey, Composer, Lyricist, Producer - Tania Hancheroff - Wes Hightower
(P) 2006 BMG Music
Jake Owen, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist - Bob Regan, Composer, Lyricist - Jimmy Ritchey, Composer, Lyricist, Producer - Wes Hightower
(P) 2006 BMG Music
Jake Owen, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist - Kendal Marvel, Composer, Lyricist - Jimmy Ritchey, Composer, Lyricist, Producer - Wes Hightower
(P) 2006 BMG Music
Jake Owen, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist - Casey Beathard, Composer, Lyricist - Kendal Marvel, Composer, Lyricist - Jimmy Ritchey, Producer - Tania Hancheroff - Wes Hightower
(P) 2006 Sony Music Entertainment
Jake Owen, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist - Chuck Jones, Composer, Lyricist - Jimmy Ritchey, Composer, Lyricist, Producer - Wes Hightower
(P) 2006 BMG Music
Jake Owen, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist - Eric Durrance, Composer, Lyricist - Jimmy Ritchey, Producer - Tania Hancheroff - Wes Hightower
(P) 2006 Sony Music Entertainment
Jake Owen, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist - Kendal Marvel, Composer, Lyricist - Jimmy Ritchey, Composer, Lyricist, Producer - Lisa Cochran - Tania Hancheroff - Wes Hightower
(P) 2006 BMG Music
Jake Owen, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist - Wes Hightower, Composer, Lyricist - Jimmy Ritchey, Composer, Lyricist, Producer
(P) 2006 BMG Music
Jake Owen, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist - Kendal Marvel, Composer, Lyricist - Jimmy Ritchey, Composer, Lyricist, Producer - John Wesley Ryles
(P) 2006 BMG Music
Jake Owen, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist - Chuck Jones, Composer, Lyricist - Jimmy Ritchey, Composer, Lyricist, Producer - Wes Hightower
(P) 2006 BMG Music
Jake Owen, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist - Kendal Marvel, Composer, Lyricist - Jimmy Ritchey, Composer, Lyricist, Producer - Tania Hancheroff - Wes Hightower
(P) 2006 BMG Music
Album review
A Nashville country rebel in the mold of Travis Tritt -- in other words, a defanged and marketing-driven pretty boy whose punkin head David Allan Coe or Waylon Jennings would smash a beer bottle over just on general principle -- Jake Owen makes his debut with the utterly formulaic Startin' with Me. Opening tracks "Bad in Me" and "Yee Haw" try so desperately hard to establish Owen's image as a bad-ass hellraiser that they finally become comical, and not the knowingly self-mocking Big & Rich kind of comical, either. Every note on Startin' with Me is as perfectly placed as Owen's artfully mussed hair in the reg'lar joe glamour shot on the front cover. Owen and producer Jimmy Ritchey carefully check off all the country radio clichés: Drinking ballad? Check! Cry for the good Lord's deliverance? You betcha! Leering misogyny disguised as praise for the female of the species? Got yer "Something About a Woman" right here, pal! Naturally, something so perfectly contrived can't help but be at least modestly successful on a commercial level.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:38:31
- Main artists: Jake Owen
- Composer: Jake Owen
- Label: RCA Records Label Nashville
- Genre: Country
(P) 2006 BMG Music
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