TO HELP POUR OUT THE RAIN: Congratulations to grizzled Nashville session player Buddy Jewell for winning the inaugural Nashville Star competition on the USA Network last night. As his prize, Buddy gets to record an album for Sony/Nashville, which will be produced by country star Clint Black.
I liked this show from day one. Not just the only show on television featuring Gina Gershon's sister, Nashville Star distinguished itself from American Idol and its competitors by daring to feature legitimately talented performers, top-to-bottom. People who wrote their own songs and played their own instruments, and were judged accordingly.
(C'mon, dawg: as much as we all love Ruben Studdard, can you imagine him having to write a song?)
You can listen to some of Buddy's heartfelt music on his website, including "Lacey's Song", a single scheduled to hit radio tomorrow. (Note to the Nigels and Simons of Idol: tomorrow, not eight months after the competition ended.)
Other competitors with music available online include soulful Tejano/country singer John Arthur Martinez, a fellow finalist, and Amy Chappell, whose songwriting and charm made her the WeinBo house favorite.
In addition, the official website has a number of video clips from the competition, including Anne Louise Blythe's nice countrified take on Warren Zevon's "Poor Poor Pitiful Me".
Here's hoping for a Nashville Star 2, one with a better time slot on a more-watched network. But nothing about the show itself needs to change, not at all.
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