sabre14
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Post by sabre14 on Sept 29, 2016 23:10:30 GMT -5
Released September 30th, through Warner Music Nashville. The debut, full-length album from William Michael Morgan.  Tracklisting:1. "People Like Me" (Kelley Lovelace, Lee Thomas Miller) 2. "Vinyl" (Carson Chamberlain, Ashley Gorley, Wade Kirby) 3. "Missing" (Rhett Akins, Marv Green) 4. "I Met A Girl" (Sam Hunt, Trevor Rosen, Shane McAnally) 5. "Spend It All On You" (Greg Bates, Jon Mabe, Jimmy Ritchey) 6. "Beer Drinker" (David Lee, Don Poythress, Wynn Varble) 7. "I Know Who He Is" (Casey Beathard) 8. "Cheap Cologne" (Odie Blackmon, Kevin Denney, Ritchey) 9. "Somethin' To Drink About" (William Michael Morgan, Kirby, Phil O'Donnell) 10. "Lonesomeville" (Morgan, Trent Tomlinson, Mark Sherrill, Ash Underwood) 11. "Back Seat Driver" (Robert Counts, Nicollette Hayford, Matt Willis) |
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Post by sabre14 on Sept 29, 2016 23:38:17 GMT -5
God Bless this artist. This album being stone cold 90's to early 2000's style Country music would have made my day anyway but the song's are all enjoyable, and a few are fantastic. The vocals, instrumentation, melodies and production are all stellar.
I would have said that almost none of these songs would stand much of a chance to be big hits at mainstream Country radio but the success of "I Met A Girl", along with the success of "Head Over Boots", finally gives me some hope programmers realize that they can create more room for traditional minded artist like William Michael Morgan. I'm astonished (which doesn't happen to me much) at "I Met A Girl's" long term success and peak at Country radio. Its testing has been good and the sales picked up to the point where it fits right in line with the sales and testing of other more "trend-chasing" style of music, littering playlists.
The standouts on this album are "Missing", "I Know Who He Is" and "Lonesomeville." There's about a 1% chance they release "Lonesomeville" to radio but "Missing" has hit written all over it -- so much so that I would even consider releasing it before the likely "Vinyl" as the second single. I do think both "Missing" and "Vinyl" will be singles #2 and #3. And "I Know Who He Is" is the kind of song more artists in this genre need to be recording and releasing -- that's a major reason many of us fell in love with Country music.
Every track on the record is great though; and I love the writers on this project (Greg Bates, Carson Chamberlain, Kevin Denney, Trent Tomlinson, Wynn Varble to name a few). I believe "I Met A Girl" will pull off at least the Mediabase #1 this weekend and if you were to tell me last Fall that Morgan would get to release his full-length album next September (damn near October) of 2016 and "I Met A Girl" would go #1 the weekend of the release...I would have definitely said BS to that. lol
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Post by zjames on Sept 29, 2016 23:59:16 GMT -5
I'll post more thoughts later when I'm not on mobile, but all I have to say is I'm all for "Missing" as single #2. It might be the catchiest song of the year for me and it's so relatable in our day and age.
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Post by George Strait Junkie on Sept 30, 2016 0:21:57 GMT -5
holy hell and high water i will wear out this album. love it all from top to bottom.
hell how do i rank this
here's my 1st ranking (will most likely change later)
1. Cheap Cologne - Kevin Denny's song still is my favorite on here and WMM nailed it with perfection
2. Beer Drinker - this song is a singalong gets me everytime
3. Vinyl - love the lyrics in this one very well written
4. People Like Me - A classic Rhett Akins tune i have had for years so glad it got cut again
5. Missing - loved Greg Garcia's version but WMM knocked it out the park
6. Lonesomeville - classic country song
7. Back Seat Driver - this one has grown on me didn't care for it at first
8. Spend It All On You - Classic love song
9. I Met A Girl - kinda over this song a bit
10. I Know Who He Is - good song just don't do much for me
11. Something To Drink About - at first listen i don't care for this hope it does get better for me like back seat driver
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Post by rsmatto on Sept 30, 2016 0:54:08 GMT -5
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Post by countryboy79 on Sept 30, 2016 3:29:44 GMT -5
I literally fell in love with WMM; just 23 years manages to condense into a single singer many "great" of the past. At 23 he is able to give emotions with tradition. It s'a big country music album, at once traditional and modern. No winks to pop to soul to rap and other genres; it goes straight on his way, and no compromises. I want to listen to well the album entirely. But guys, Missing is a gem.
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Post by robenglund on Sept 30, 2016 11:31:41 GMT -5
Not a single drum loop to be found on this album. This is straight up stone cold country. Excellent excellent stuff. Every single song is good but I'd say the top 2 are "I Know Who He Is" and "Missing".
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2016 15:35:42 GMT -5
I kind of feel bad for WMM--in the sense that if it was 20 years ago, he has an album here with a handful of surefire number 1s.
On the other hand, I'm glad he's around now, when we need it most. Bravo.
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Post by phil1996 on Oct 1, 2016 10:50:49 GMT -5
This is excellent. What a great country album. Great to see good young talent like Brothers Osborne, Jon Pardi and this guy keeping country alive. Time to rank em.
1. I Know Who He Is (what a song)
2. Cheap Cologne (this would have been HUGE back in the day)
3. Missing
4. Lonesomeville
5. Vinyl
6. People Like Me
7. Spend It All On You (see #2)
8. I Met a Girl
9. Something To Drink About
10. Beer Drinker
11. Backseat Driver
Really hoping for Missing or Vinyl as the next single. Back in the 90's he'd have multi week #1 smashes with Cheap Cologne/Spend It All On You/Lonesomeville. Too bad those don't have a chance on today's radio. Whitley-esque. This is the kind of stuff Easton Corbin and Chris Young need to do more of.
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Post by vann on Oct 1, 2016 23:16:44 GMT -5
I liked his album more than I liked the songs on his EP and in some of the songs he "reminded" me Chris Young´s voice but it is a good traditional and modern album for sure and no doubt that we have been missing to listen something like this lately.
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Post by gonecountry on Oct 3, 2016 6:52:18 GMT -5
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Post by kw9461 on Oct 3, 2016 22:23:35 GMT -5
This is a terrific record, easily tops Jon Pardi for my favorite of 2016 - and the fact that it's his debut makes it even more remarkable (particularly when literally no one else in the genre is staying this true to neo-traditional country).
There really isn't a bad song in the bunch, but I'll go ahead and try to rank them.
1. Missing
2. I Know Who He Is (this song is just devastatingly good. it's heartbreaking, but I love how defiantly positive it is)
3. Vinyl (a radio smash if i've ever heard one. I would still make this the 3rd single)
4. Cheap Cologne
5. Lonesomeville (on just about any other record this year this would be my favorite song, and yet it's only #5 here...)
6. Backseat Driver
7. Spend It All On You
8. Beer Drinker (surprising good song given how cliche it could have been)
9. I Met A Girl (I would probably have this 2 spots higher if I weren't so sick of it, a good song either way though)
10. People Like Me
11. Somethin' To Drink About (the verses are strong but the chorus just doesn't do it for me. closest thing to a clunker on the album)
If ever an album warranted it, this gets 5 out of 5 stars from me.
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Post by robenglund on Oct 7, 2016 12:06:40 GMT -5
According to the HDD building album sales chart, Vinyl is only at 4,572 :( .
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2016 12:23:30 GMT -5
According to the HDD building album sales chart, Vinyl is only at 4,572 :( . That's really not great, but to be expected these days. "I Met a Girl" wasn't really acting like a #1 until radio got on the Pardi train and was looking for something in their playlists to compliment the new wave of throwback sounds. As someone who was hoping WMM could piggyback Pardi's success, I think it's smart to remember Pardi built an underground following since his first album. WMM has time to grow. But hands down, what a great album. Reminds me of early Chris Young (when he still cared about carrying that traditional flag). |
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Post by dm2081 on Oct 7, 2016 19:46:22 GMT -5
It concerns that me that more Americans would rather buy Chris Lane than William Michael Morgan.
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Oct 7, 2016 20:20:22 GMT -5
Vinyl's numbers are actually this per HDD
-- 37 WILLIAM MICHAEL MORGAN
VINYL
WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 6,653 --
Position wise it's lower than Chris Lane but sales wise WMM sold more
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Post by onebuffalo on Oct 11, 2016 17:20:10 GMT -5
#5 country, #65 top 200 album with 7000 sold. Congratulations, William Michael Morgan!
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Post by wilbur on Oct 20, 2016 18:28:42 GMT -5
i bought a copy for me and a copy for my mom. sad he couldnt sell more bc this is my favorite album of 2016.
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Post by George Strait Junkie on Oct 20, 2016 21:30:24 GMT -5
i bought a copy for me and a copy for my mom. sad he couldnt sell more bc this is my favorite album of 2016. i did that as well |
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