★★★★★
Known for writing his own songs and playing the piano, it's a bit ironic that the big hit single for Phil Vassar's "Prayer Of A Common Man" is a guitar-based, story song written by Jeffrey Steele and Craig Wiseman. "Love Is A Beautiful Thing" is the song and while originally recorded by Paul Brandt in 1999, Phil and his co-producer Mark Wright really punched up the song and turned it into a anthem about love in all forms...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
"One day you're up high, you're flying through the sky, got a peaceful mind and everything is all right, next minute you're face down in it, and there's no relief in sight...aww, life." That's the first verse of the very first song of Phil Vassar's sophomore release for Universal Records South and if anybody has truly lived that lyric in the crazy world that is the music business, it is Phil Vassar...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Phil Vassar established himself as a top country songwriter by penning vigorous, rock-influenced romps for Tim McGraw and Jo Dee Messina. On his own, Vassar is an enthusiastic vocalist, a skilled pianist, and a gifted composer of spirited, nostalgic tales. Like Tom T. Hall, Vassar has a talent for chronological storytelling, squeezing big emotions out of small-town details...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Phil Vassar had his breakthrough in 2002 with his second album, American Child, a mature set of contemporary country-pop that established that the former professional songwriter had the chops to be a performing star in his own right. For its 2004 follow-up, Shaken Not Stirred, Vassar loosens things up a little bit, borrowing a little from Kenny Chesney's laid-back party-ready style...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28