James in USA Today

Posted by Team Otto - Apr 21, 2008

On the verge: James Otto is into his music heart and country soul

The Otto show: James Otto's top five country hit, Just Got Started Lovin' You, has a slow, slinky groove and a bedroom growl of a vocal that harks back to R&B-influenced records of Ronnie Milsap and Conway Twitty. His Sunset Man album, which has tracks produced by Big & Rich's John Rich and Rascal Flatts' Jay DeMarcus, made its debut at No. 3 on Billboard's albums chart last week, selling nearly 60,000 copies.

The 34-year-old singer/songwriter considers himself a proponent of what he calls country soul....

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To me, our guy is traditional country and not just country soul.

Submitted by nascarholly on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 12:20pm.

In my opinion for whatever it is worth, our guy can do both because to me you can NOT get anymore traditional country than "Sunset Man" and "When A Woman's Not Watching" and I love it!!! (smiles)

God bless you and our guy always!!!

Holly in East Tennessee

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Submitted by JTCTLC96 on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 6:27am.

It was great. Hopefully his country soul will inspire others to join in and step outside the bounds of traditional country. I like the traditional dont get me wrong. But I love James Otto!!