Buddy Jewell kicked around Texas roadhouses from his teens to his early thirties, then kicked around Nashville until his early forties, supporting himself as a demo singer, until the reality series Nashville Star gave him by popular acclamation what the country music industry had denied him, a recording contract. On his first album,
Jewell is thoroughly competent to sing the formula country songs that have been rounded up for him (three of which even feature his name in the songwriting credits), and he gets across the points the songs have to make in their lyrics. ~ William Ruhlmann