Bna Entertainment
2006
Small Town Girl
About This Album
The first 2006 American Idol contestant out of the gates with an album is not winner Taylor Hicks or runner-up Katharine McPhee or even Web favorite Chris Daughtry: it's Kellie Pickler, the Carrie Underwood wannabe with an "aw shucks" grin and a down-home charm. Kellie certainly didn't have the greatest voice among the 2006 contestants, but she sure did have the most personality -- who else could have held their own against Wolfgang Puck in a sketch comedy, as she did on the show's season finale? -- which made her an excellent candidate to be polished and packaged into a pop star. Or, more accurately, a country-pop star, since there was no hiding the twang in Pickler's voice (something that hindered her rendition of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," or made it more exquisite, depending on your perspective), nor was there any denying that her strongest base of support was the South, which was only natural for this North Carolina girl. Pickler always played up her country girl persona on the show, and while her antics sometimes bordered on shtick -- there's no other word for her trademark apology, "I'm saw-ree!," which was equal parts Gomer Pyle and Hee-Haw -- it did give her an identity that could be transferred to record, as it is on Small Town Girl.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8)

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