Brian McComas (album)

Brian McComas
Studio album by Brian McComas
Released	July 22, 2003 (2003-07-22)
Genre	Country
Label	Lyric Street
Producer	Leigh Reynolds (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 11) Leon Medica (tracks 3, 4, 7–10)
Brian McComas chronology
Brian McComas (2003) Back Up Again (2005)

Brian McComas is the self-titled debut 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]

Track listing

1. "99.9% Sure (I've Never Been Here Before)" (Billy Austin, Greg Barnhill) – 3:13
2. "Come with Me" (Mark D. Sanders, Branden Hart) – 3:37
3. "Night Disappear with You" (Brian McComas) – 3:37
4. "You'd Have Never Said Goodbye" (Ken Harrell, Ray Scott, Shaye Smith) – 3:19
5. "Sixteen Again" (Neal Coty, Phillip White, Jimmy Melton) – 3:18
6. "You're in My Head" (Shane Minor, Jeffrey Steele, Chris Wallin) – 3:36
7. "Baby Let Me Be Your Man" (McComas) – 4:46
8. "Never Meant a Thing" (McComas) – 4:51
9. "Straight to You" (Sanders, Tia Sillers) – 3:29
10. "I Could Never Love You Enough" (McComas) – 4:14
11. "I'll Always Be There for You" (Odie Blackmon, Steve Seskin) – 4:47

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.^[4]

• Tim Akers – keyboards
• Steve Brewster – drums, percussion
• Joel Carr – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Eric Darken – percussion
• Dan Dugmore – steel guitar, Dobro, slide guitar
• David Grissom – electric guitar
• Aubrey Haynie – fiddle, mandolin
• Brian McComas – vocals
• Jerry McPherson – electric guitar
• Leon Medica – bass guitar
• Gene Miller – background vocals
• Steve Nathan – keyboards
• Leigh Reynolds – acoustic guitar, banjo
• John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
• Russell Terrell – background vocals
• Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
• Lonnie Wilson – drums
• Glenn Worf – bass guitar

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

Chart performance

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