Track Listing

1. It's Who You Know
2. Looking Like Love
3. If You Didn't Love Me
4. No Way Around A River
5. `Round Here
6. Be Good To Each Other
7. Find You
8. You Are Mine
9. What I'm Fighting For
10. Still Going Through
11. Identity

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #547 in Music
• Released on: 2008-04-29
• Number of discs: 1

About the Artist
Phil Stacey's defining moment on American Idol came during Country Week, well into the competition. "Country Week was the first one that had anything to do with my background," he says. "It was my chance to sing music I could really relate to, that drew on who I am and what I'd grown up around."

Phil's path toward a country music career began in a childhood molded by two equally strong influences. The first was the ministry, which had shaped both sides of his family for generations. The other was music. Phil grew up singing in church and later became a member of the prestigious Lee Singers.

Intending to pursue a career in music after graduating from college, Phil was compelled to join the Navy after the attacks of September 11.

While stationed in Jacksonville, FL as lead singer of the Navy Band Southeast, he performed music by Garth Brooks, George Strait, Tim McGraw, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and James Taylor, a rounding out of tastes that served him well when he finally hit Idol. Then, with Country Week, it all came full circle. "Randy said, 'Dude, you're gonna have a big career in country,' and that was the night even Simon agreed," he says. "And I was thinking, 'Thank God, because this is me. I'm finally getting to do something I love to do.'"

After the 55-city Idol tour wrapped in September 2007, Phil immediately re-enlisted in the Naval Reserves. He moved his family to Nashville, signed with Lyric Street Records, and began recording his debut album with producer Wayne Kirkpatrick.

The music they've recorded will give listeners a look at a man who comes into his own with a hard-won maturity and self-knowledge. "I feel my job as a singer," he says, "is part of my job as a human being. I'm supposed to be touching other people's lives, doing the best I can to be a positive force in the world."

Album Description
Phil Stacey was a finalist on the sixth season of American Idol, where he performed for an average of 30 million viewers for the eleven weeks he competed on the series. Phil's debut single, "If You Didn't Love Me" is climbing the country charts. The track is produced by Wayne Kirkpatrick and co-written by Rascal Flatts' Gary Levox.

Customer Reviews

EXCELLENT CD - ONE OF THE ALL-TIME IDOL BEST!!!
All I can say about this CD is that it is FANTASTIC. Every song is good, and Phil's voice fits the songs like the proverbial hand and glove. I was NOT a fan of Phil's when he was on AI, yet something led me to buy this CD. I am SO GLAD I DID! It is really, really, really, really.... VERY GOOD!

this cd is great
Phil, this cd is awesome.No matter what is going on in ones life, you can identify with these songs. Since i bought it, its the only one Ive listened to. I crank up the volume and get doing what i need to do. My kids come home or get in the truck with me and say its Phil Stacy again??
I tell them this is my truck and they got to listen to what i want. Ive listened to theirs over the years and now its my turn and my CD of choice is yours. To all people that read these..... BUY THIS CD.... you will not be sorry.


Wanda Atkinson

Stacey goes home
Making Top 10 of American Idol is one thing, but getting that far when your forte is Country music is an amazing accomplishment, a la Carrie Underwood and Kellie Pickler. It was fitting therefore that Phil Stacey's season six elimination anthem was sung by Carrie Underwood instead of Daughtry. He however, took Daughtry's anthem advice and went back to his roots, the result being this surprisingly good debut album.

"I'm going home,
Back to the place where I belong"
(lyrics from "Home" by Daughtry)

The first single "If You Didn't Love Me" was co-written by Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts. Other tracks to note are: "It's Who You Know" (nice fiddle); "Looking like Love" (sweet chorus); "No Way Around a River" (inspirational, good melody); "Identity" (Christian lyrics).

"You are strong, so I am strong
You are power and so
I am powerful
You are mercy, so I am mercy
Lord, everything You are
Now becomes me"
(Lyrics: Identity)

This is a solid, easy-listening, inspirational album with a lot of guitars and fiddles that should please country music and American Idol fans at home or further afield.



Amanda Richards, May 9, 2008