- Bucky Covington (album)
Infobox Album
Name = Bucky Covington
Type = studio
Artist =Bucky Covington
Released = Start date|2007|04|17
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length =
Label = Lyric Street
Producer = Mark Miller
Reviews =
*Allmusic - Rating|3.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0pfrxzw5ldae link]
*"Entertainment Weekly " – B+ [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20034640,00.html link]
Last album =
This album = Bucky Covington
(2007)
Next album =
Misc =Singles
Name = Bucky Covington
Type = Studio
Single 1 = A Different World
Single 1 date = January 2007
Single 2 =It's Good to Be Us
Single 2 date = September 2007
Single 3 =I'll Walk
Single 3 date = April 2008
Single 4 =
Single 4 date ="Bucky Covington" is the self-titled debut album of American country music artist
Bucky Covington . It was released byLyric Street Records , the country division ofHollywood Records , on April 17, 2007. It has produced three Top 20 singles for him on the "Billboard" country charts: "A Different World" at #6, "It's Good to Be Us" at #11, and "I'll Walk".Album background
The album was produced by Mark Miller, lead singer of the country music band
Sawyer Brown , and recorded inNashville, Tennessee . Two other members of Sawyer Brown — Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard and Jim Scholten — also contribute on background vocals and bass guitar, respectively.Track listing
#"American Friday Night" (Tommy Douglas) - 3:21
#"A Different World" (Mark Nesler ,Jennifer Hanson , Tony Martin) - 3:28
#"I'll Walk " (Brent Wilson, Lonnie Fowler) – 3:30
#"Back When We Were Gods" (Ward Davis, Dan Murph) - 3:31
#"Ain't No Thing" (John Scott Sherrill, Chris Stapleton) - 4:19
#"I'm Good" (Nesler, Marti Dodson) - 3:03
#"Empty Handed" (Kip Raines, Stapleton) - 3:27
#"Hometown" (Chris Tompkins, Mark Irwin,Josh Kear ) - 3:25
#"It's Good to Be Us " (Dave Berg, Tim James) - 3:04
#"Carolina Blue" (Gregg Hubbard, Mark Miller, Bucky Covington) - 3:52
#"The Bible and the Belt" (Marc Beeson, Tim Gates, Billy Austin) - 3:37Charts
The album debuted at #4 on the
Billboard 200 , selling about 61,000 copies in its first week. It also debuted at #1 on Top Country Albums, making the album the best opening week for a debut album by a male on the country charts sinceBilly Ray Cyrus ' 1992 debut "Some Gave All ". [Katie Hasty, [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003576072 "Lavigne's New 'Thing' Debuts Atop Billboard 200"] , Billboard.com, April 25, 2007.] The album has since sold around 350,000 units.Personnel
*Robert Bailey -
background vocals
*Dan Dugmore -steel guitar
*Vicki Hampton - background vocals
*Aubrey Haynie -fiddle
*Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard - background vocals
*Bobby Huff - drums, percussion, background vocals
*Blair Masters -piano , keyboard,Hammond organ
*Pat McGrath -acoustic guitar
*Dale Oliver - acoustic guitar,electric guitar ,Dobro ,mandolin
*Russ Pahl - acoustic guitar,steel guitar
*John Wesley Ryles - background vocals
*Jim Scholten -bass guitar References
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