How Lucky I Am

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Consider the following parallel: In the mid-1970s, Olivia Newton-John defined easy-listening country-pop with breathy come-hitherness and cloying sentimentality. What goes around comes around, as Bryan White proves with his fourth squeaky-clean charmer. With the exception of some ambient pedal steel and fiddle, White's power ballad style is about as country as Luther Vandross. In fact, his adolescent coos and oohs sound like samples from the froth favored by today's R&B crowd. With all of Nashville at his disposal, White lays the production on thick, employing the Nashville String Machine to gloss songs that have all the punch of sugar cubes dissolving in Evian. When he picks up the pen himself, he drips slush like, "You got the power, you got the mind / You got the skills, Baby, I ain't lyin'." If this is country music's final inoculation for the soft-rock world of middle-school sock-hops, supermarket aisles, and orthodontist offices, well, at least it's over with. --Roy Kasten

How Lucky I Am,Bryan White,Elektra / Wea,Contemporary Country,Country,Country & Western,Country-Pop,Pop

Average customer rating: IF THIS IS WHAT FALLING IN LOVE DID TO BRYAN.... OH SO BAD WHAT HAPPENED BRYAN? Total disagreement with other reviews... So-So

How Lucky I Am Bryan White Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Right Place Between Now and Forever Bryan White Bryan White - Greatest Hits Dreaming Of Christmas [EP] ASIN: B00000JZBS Release Date: 1999-08-24

Tracks:

1. Everywhere I Turn
2. Heaven Sent
3. The Stayin'
4. You're Still Beautiful To Me
5. That Good
6. Love Me Like You Mean It
7. God Gave Me You
8. Love Happens Just Like That
9. Shari Ann
10. Two In A Million
11. How Lucky I Am
12. You'll Always Be Loved (By Me)

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Consider the following parallel: In the mid-1970s, Olivia Newton-John defined easy-listening country-pop with breathy come-hitherness and cloying sentimentality. What goes around comes around, as Bryan White proves with his fourth squeaky-clean charmer. With the exception of some ambient pedal steel and fiddle, White's power ballad style is about as country as Luther Vandross. In fact, his adolescent coos and oohs sound like samples from the froth favored by today's R&B crowd. With all of Nashville at his disposal, White lays the production on thick, employing the Nashville String Machine to gloss songs that have all the punch of sugar cubes dissolving in Evian. When he picks up the pen himself, he drips slush like, "You got the power, you got the mind / You got the skills, Baby, I ain't lyin'." If this is country music's final inoculation for the soft-rock world of middle-school sock-hops, supermarket aisles, and orthodontist offices, well, at least it's over with. --Roy Kasten

Customer Reviews:

IF THIS IS WHAT FALLING IN LOVE DID TO BRYAN...........2006-03-07

A reviewer below posted that change is good and the change was Bryan falling in love with Erika Page which is reflected on this CD. But if this is what falling in love did to Bryan White....then there must have been trouble in paradise. The CD comes nowhere near the quality of his first three CDs. There was an ethereal, vulnerability to Bryan White's music in those first ones. This one contains some good lyrics but is hampered by terrible production values. The melodies of the songs (the thing that attracts me most to a song)are really terrible. It is such a shame because he lost his recording contract after this debacle was released and he seems to have dropped out of the picture. What a waste because Bryan White is a good hearted, talented young man.

OH SO BAD.......2005-09-27

This is one of the worst CDs I've ever heard. I enjoyed Bryan White's previous work but something obviously went wrong here....maybe he was badly advised or something. There is not one good song on here. Not a one!! Its a shame too because his other albums are great!!

WHAT HAPPENED BRYAN?.......2005-05-15

Bryan White's first three CDs were awesome! I don't know what went wrong here but obviously something did; he lost his record contract after this release and fizzled out. It is such a shame because he is really a nice boy with talent that was amazing on his first three CDs. The material here is absolutely vapid and dull. "How Lucky I Am" was, unfortunately, NOT a good luck charm for White. Nothing on this CD could top "Someone Else's Star, Rebecca Lynn, That's Another Song, I'm Not Supposed to Love You Anymore, So Much for Pretending, Look at Me Now, The Right Place, or any of the cuts from his previous work. I just keep wondering what went wrong?? Bryan White is certainly capable of better offerings than this. I hope another label gives him another chance to show what he can really do to make up for the "embarrassment" this effort was. I just keep asking myself, "what happened, Bryan"?

Total disagreement with other reviews..........2003-11-16

I have to say, I totally disagree with the reviews I have read on this CD... I had purchased Bryan's first three CD's and loved them, but I just thought that he had outdone himself on "How Lucky I Am"! I think it's a shame that country radio didn't embrace this one - it had several potential hits!

"Everywhere I Turn" is similar to the formula he had used on his first three releases and has radio hit written all over it! Same goes for "The Stayin'", "That Good", "God Gave Me You" and "Love Me Like You Mean It" - all could have been contenders for the Country Top 40 properly marketed.

All in all, I think this collection is totally overlooked and underappreciated!

So-So.......2003-05-22

Although I like a wide range of music, including this type, this certainly is not the best. None really stand out, not even from a long-term "Top 40" perspective. Somewhat disappointing. In fact, I ended up giving mine away.

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United ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000BWRB54

Product Description

1.find my own voice.2.let love take you home.3.timing is everything.4.leave the light on.5.united.6.how lucky i am.7.shadowcasting.8.we both know why.9.family way.10.hearing silence

Music Album:

1. In Concert 1964 [Live]
2. Juke Joint Boogie [Import]
3. Legend of Charlie Poole, Vol. 3
4. Live at the Britt Festival [Import] [Live]
5. Live from Robert's [EP] [Live]
6. Long About That Time
7. Lots & Lots of Trucks
8. Love Stories [Import]
9. Moonlight Becomes You
10. Munly & The Lee Lewis Harlots

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