JOHN CORBETT
''LEAVING NOTHIN' BEHIND''
FEBRUARY 5 2013
37:08
1 Steal Your Heart 04:16
2 Tennessee Will 03:41
3 Name On A Stone 03:44
4 Rainy Windy Sunshine 03:38
5 El Paso 04:01
6 Backside Of A Backslide 02:37
7 Me And Whiskey 03:20
8 Cocaine And Communion 03:38
9 Satin Sheets 03:07
10 Dairy Queen 04:59
REVIEW
By John Freeman, countryweekly.com
Performing someone else’s songs is a bit like acting—you have to display a deep understanding of a character’s motivations for it to really work. Yet when a skilled actor like John Corbett (Sex and the City, My Big Fat Greek Wedding) records an album, it’s usually met with a healthy dose of skepticism.
Which is all pretty silly, to be honest. And on John’s third album, Leaving Nothin’ Behind, the heartthrob actor brings his best interpretive abilities to the studio. Joining John for the project is Jon Randall Stewart (Dierks Bentley’s Up on the Ridge), who co-wrote seven of the album’s 10 tracks and produced with Gary Paczosa. Leaving Nothin’ Behind is steeped in the language of classic Americana, with sighing steel and baritone guitar on the ballads, and boogie-woogie piano to match the electric guitars on the up-tempos. While John probably won’t win any competitions as a vocalist, he sings every tune with convincing warmth and personality.
He inhabits a variety of characters—the wrongfully convicted cowboy (“El Paso,” which bears some lyrical similarities to the Marty Robbins classic), the well-meaning guy who drinks too much and gets out of control (“Me and Whiskey”) and the prodigal substance-abuser turning over a new leaf (“Cocaine and Communion”). It doesn’t work as well on “Satin Sheets,” which opens with the lines Wish I was a millionaire / Play rock music and grow long hair. Maybe it’s the money thing—knowing the guy is already famous makes it a little tougher to swallow than when he yearns to leave some kind of lasting mark in the touching “Name on a Stone.”
But John is at his best when he puts on his Buck Owens suit and heads for the honky-tonks in “Backside of a Backslide,” spun out on whiskey and begging his baby to let him come back. The band of Nashville pros is revved up, barreling along behind him at full-tilt and having a ball. It’s a role, like his many memorable onscreen characters, that suits him well.
BIOGRAPHY/AMG
by David Jeffries
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''LEAVING NOTHIN' BEHIND''
FEBRUARY 5 2013
37:08
1 Steal Your Heart 04:16
2 Tennessee Will 03:41
3 Name On A Stone 03:44
4 Rainy Windy Sunshine 03:38
5 El Paso 04:01
6 Backside Of A Backslide 02:37
7 Me And Whiskey 03:20
8 Cocaine And Communion 03:38
9 Satin Sheets 03:07
10 Dairy Queen 04:59
REVIEW
By John Freeman, countryweekly.com
Performing someone else’s songs is a bit like acting—you have to display a deep understanding of a character’s motivations for it to really work. Yet when a skilled actor like John Corbett (Sex and the City, My Big Fat Greek Wedding) records an album, it’s usually met with a healthy dose of skepticism.
Which is all pretty silly, to be honest. And on John’s third album, Leaving Nothin’ Behind, the heartthrob actor brings his best interpretive abilities to the studio. Joining John for the project is Jon Randall Stewart (Dierks Bentley’s Up on the Ridge), who co-wrote seven of the album’s 10 tracks and produced with Gary Paczosa. Leaving Nothin’ Behind is steeped in the language of classic Americana, with sighing steel and baritone guitar on the ballads, and boogie-woogie piano to match the electric guitars on the up-tempos. While John probably won’t win any competitions as a vocalist, he sings every tune with convincing warmth and personality.
He inhabits a variety of characters—the wrongfully convicted cowboy (“El Paso,” which bears some lyrical similarities to the Marty Robbins classic), the well-meaning guy who drinks too much and gets out of control (“Me and Whiskey”) and the prodigal substance-abuser turning over a new leaf (“Cocaine and Communion”). It doesn’t work as well on “Satin Sheets,” which opens with the lines Wish I was a millionaire / Play rock music and grow long hair. Maybe it’s the money thing—knowing the guy is already famous makes it a little tougher to swallow than when he yearns to leave some kind of lasting mark in the touching “Name on a Stone.”
But John is at his best when he puts on his Buck Owens suit and heads for the honky-tonks in “Backside of a Backslide,” spun out on whiskey and begging his baby to let him come back. The band of Nashville pros is revved up, barreling along behind him at full-tilt and having a ball. It’s a role, like his many memorable onscreen characters, that suits him well.
BIOGRAPHY/AMG
by David Jeffries
Down-to-earth hunk John Corbett left behind a successful acting career in television and movies when he committed himself to his first creative love: music. Born in Wheeling, WV, Corbett grew up five blocks from the Capitol Music Hall, home of Jamboree USA, the second-longest-running live radio broadcast after Nashville's Grand Ole Opry. He also got to see the likes of Buck Owens at the small music club his uncle owned, while the cover band he played in while attending high school brought more rock music into his life. Moving to California in the mid-'80s, Corbett met rockabilly guitarist Tara Novick. The two would work on music together while Corbett was finding jobs acting, something that started as lark but grew into two hit television series (Northern Exposure, Sex and the City) and two hit films (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Raising Helen). His band would make a casual Christmastime appearance on The Tonight Show to perform "Santa Is Back in Town," and impromptu performances would happen at the Seattle music club he owned called the Phoenix, but it was until 2005 that Corbett decided to give up acting and head to Nashville. Novick joined him and the two would hang out with hit songwriters Odie Blackmon and Jameson Clark and eventually rounded up enough tunes for an album. Recording happened quickly to capture the excitement and momentum the duo were moving ahead with, so when major labels suggested waiting a year or so to devise marketing strategies, Corbett decided to go it alone. After giving his rocking kind of country some public exposure by sharing the stage with ZZ Top, Lisa Marie Presley, Charlie Daniels, and Asleep at the Wheel, Corbett released his self-titled debut on his own Fun Bone label in 2006.
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