Startin' with Me

by Jake Owen

Overview

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 cliches: 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

Product Details

Release Date:	02/24/2015
Label:	Bmg / Sony Music
UPC:	0888750727626
Rank:	111319

Tracks

1. The Bad in Me
2. Something About a Woman
3. Startin' with Me
4. Yee Haw
5. Ghosts
6. Eight Second Ride
7. Hard Not to Love You
8. The Bottle and Me
9. Places to Run
10. Long Night with You
11. You Can Thank Dixie

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Jake Owen   Primary Artist
Randy Owen   Primary Artist
B. James Lowry   Guitar (Acoustic)
Eric Darken   Percussion
Jonathan Yudkin   Cello,Viola,Violin,Strings
John Wesley Ryles   Vocals (Background)
Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson   Harmonica
Paul Franklin   Dobro,Guitar (Steel),Lap Steel Guitar
Kenny Aronoff   Drums
Jimmy Ritchey   Mandolin,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Baritone),Guitar (Electric)
Larry Franklin   Fiddle
Pat Buchanan   Guitar (Electric)
Wes Hightower   Vocals (Background)
David Grissom   Guitar (Electric)
Lisa Cochran   Vocals (Background)
Brent Mason   Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
Glenn Worf   Bass

Technical Credits

Jimmy Ritchey   Audio Production,Composer,Producer
Clarke Schleicher   Mixing
Jonathan Yudkin   Composer,String Arrangements
Brett James   Composer
Jake Owen   Composer
Jennifer Kemp   Stylist
Mike "Frog" Griffith   Production Coordination
Erik Hellerman   Engineer
Astrid Herbold May   Design,Art Direction
Eric Durrance   Composer
Casey Beathard   Composer
Wes Hightower   Composer
Jeff Balding   Mixing
Lowell Reynolds   Assistant,Mixing Assistant
Allen Ditto   Mixing Assistant
Leslie Richter   Assistant
Adam Ayan   Mastering