Brian McComas (album) explained

Brian McComas
Type:studio
Artist:Brian McComas
Cover:mccomas.jpg
Genre:Country
Label:Lyric Street
Producer:Leigh Reynolds (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 11)
Leon Medica (tracks 3, 4, 7–10)
Next Title:Back Up Again
Next Year:2005

Brian McComas is the debut studio album by American country music singer Brian McComas. It was released on July 22, 2003 via Lyric Street Records. It includes the singles "Night Disappear with You," "I Could Never Love You Enough," "99.9% Sure (I've Never Been Here Before)" and "You're in My Head," all of which charted between 2001 and 2004.

History

The album includes two songs that McComas released between 2001 and 2002: "Night Disappear with You" and its b-side "I Could Never Love You Enough," which respectively reached numbers 41 and 46 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts.[1] In 2003, he charted within the country Top 40 for the first time with "99.9% Sure (I've Never Been Here Before)" at number 10, and "You're in My Head" at 21.[1] McComas later released a fifth single for Lyric Street, "The Middle of Nowhere," which reached number 43 in 2005 and never appeared on an album.[1]

Critical reception

Jeffrey B. Remz of Country Standard Time gave the album a mostly-negative review. He praised McComas's vocal performances on the up-tempo songs such as "You're in My Head," but thought that most of the songs were "pleasant enough, but no more."[2] Brian Mansfield gave the album two-and-a-half stars out of four in a review for USA Today, referring to McComas as a "likeable fellow" and saying that the sound of "99.9% Sure" "blend[s] agreeably on contemporary country radio."[3]

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.[4]

Strings on "I'll Always Be There for You" performed by the Nashville String Machine; arranged by Bergen White.

Chart performance

Chart (2003)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums21
U.S. Billboard 200149
U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers4

Notes and References

  1. Book: Joel Whitburn. Joel Whitburn. Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. 2008. 266. 978-0-89820-177-2.
  2. Web site: Brian McComas review . Jeffrey B. Remz . . 14 June 2010.
  3. Web site: LSG returns; Sarai raps up her debut . Brian Mansfield . 28 July 2003 . . 14 June 2010.
  4. Brian McComas . Brian McComas . 2003 . CD insert . Lyric Street Records . 165025.