As a recording star in his native Canada, Adam Gregory literally grew up before his audience’s eyes.   With his hit single “Crazy Days,” (watch here)Adam returned to the Canadian radio charts after a brief hiatus and has seen his star rise even further in the “Great White North” as he simultaneously grows his career in the USA.  Here Adam released “Crazy Days” last summer and saw the fun song about returning to the fun and innocence of youth rise into the Top 30 while his follow-up single, the tender ballad “What It Takes,” (watch here) make its ascent up the charts, where it’s currently a Top 40 single. 

“Could I Just Be Me” has a summer-ready tempo and a lyric that finds Adam wondering what he needs to do get noticed by the girl of his dreams and perhaps he could get her to notice him.  So basically, in many ways, it is an up-tempo, less serious re-write of the next track on the record; the Canadian Top 10 hit “What It Takes.”  “Fast Enough” is an interesting song that would make for a great summertime single as it has a similar tempo to “Crazy Days” only instead of pleading of a return to wild innocence, Adam’s singing about trying to find any way he can to get home to the woman of his dreams. 

Like Blake Shelton, Adam Gregory acquits himself on the up tempo songs but it is the ballads where his voice truly shines and “Stronger” (listen here) is a fine example of this as this piano-lead ballad is without a shadow of a doubt, the best song on this record.  Written by Adam with Anthony L. Smith and co-producer Keith Follesé, “Stronger” is a song for our times right now.  It talks about finding the strength to carry on because “just when you think you’ve hit rock-bottom, there are wings for the broken and doors that will open…” and that we are “stronger than we think we are.”  It’s the beginning of a run of five songs that save “Crazy Days” from being merely an average album.  It’s pretty unfortunate for Adam that Kenny Chesney and Mac McAnally had a hit with a great song called “Down The Road” because Adam has a great ballad that has the same title.  Perhaps when this record gets released in the USA the song will be called “Somewhere Down The Road From Me” or something as this emotional ballad quite possibly deserves to be a radio hit in the future. 

“Get It While The Getting’s Good” is a song I would’ve probably started this album off with as it completely sets a mood and gets you up and out of your chair and singin’ along as Adam singles about trying to figure out how to enjoy life in the moment it’s happening and not letting it pass you by.  “If I’d Only” finds Adam singing a pop-leaning ballad about wondering what if’s about a broken relationship, something almost everyone in the world has lived in one way or another.

The record ends with “What Would Jesus Do,” a Billy Yates and Keith Follesé co-write that speaks to the way the world has changed around us and finds Adam asking what the son of God would do given the current state of the world.  In the hands of a band like Rascal Flatts this song might have scratched the itch to go balls to the wall power ballad mode and while Adam and his producers Brad Allan and Follesé cross to that territory a little bit, they never get full-on bombastic, which leaves the lyric leading the way and selling the song.  It’s a fitting end to an album that certainly announces to the world the arrival of a talented singer/songwriter who really excels on the ballads.  If radio in the states gives Adam Gregory a chance with songs like “Stronger,” fans will certainly come running to purchase this album.

You can support Adam Gregory by purchasing this album at Amazon Canada.