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RS: 2of 5 Stars Average User Rating: 3.5of 5 Stars

2005

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Bo Bice was a pleasant oddity on the last season of American Idol: A hippie-haired Southerner who laid his gruff tenor into bar-band classics like "Whipping Post" with a combination of unscrubbed looks and regular-dude charm. Bice's debut, on the other hand, is a wash, ignoring most of his small-screen appeal in favor of mega-generic adult rock. Given Bice's gritty voice and Alabama roots, you might have at least expected some decent facsimiles of Southern rock. Instead, you get dreck like "Nothing Without You" and "You're Everything" -- written by Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, and that Nickelback guy, respectively -- both of which set ponderous melancholia against huge choruses and lost-in-love platitudes. Elsewhere, ballads like "Willing to Try" explore the middle and upper parts of Bice's surprisingly supple voice, but after hearing the songs' cheeseball sentiments, it's not a stretch to imagine Bice in leather pants and blond highlights.

CHRISTIAN HOARD

(Posted: Jan 12, 2006)

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