Andy Griggs
This I Gotta See
Careful Where You Kiss Me
Be Still
Hillbilly Band
Long Enough
No Mississippi
Like many young male vocalists, Griggs, who had the blessing of longtime hero Waylon Jennings, faces a time-tested conundrum. His marketable hunk image and radio-friendly voice seems in many ways at odds with his obvious p.
more »reference for the grittier musical approach that Music Row generally spurns. That dichotomy is writ large here. His vocal power surges on austere, direct material, like two numbers he co-wrote: the rocking novelty Hillbilly Band and sensual My Kind of Beautiful. He journeys through male vulnerability with She Thinks She Needs Me, a contrast with Be Careful Where You Kiss Me, the sort of clichéd onstage crowd-pleaser that falters on record. Producer Gary Scruggs often favors spare accompaniments. While he shows admirable restraint on Why Do I Still Love You and Gretchen Peters s If Heaven, sludgy overproduction hobbles No Mi