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 by Lyric Street Records, the country division of Hollywood 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 in Nashville, 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) - 3:37

Charts

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 since Billy 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