Chris Young

With a rich baritone that could melt butter, Nashville Star champ Chris Young could sing the phone book and still sound appealing; thankfully, the songs on his sophomore effort, The Man I Want to Be, are far more entertaining than that. Alongside his self-penned radio hit, the sexy "Getting' You Home (The Black Dress Song)," Young goes vox-to-vox with Willie Nelson on the Waylon Jennings classic "Rose in Paradise," swamp-stomps on "Rainy Night in Georgia" and impresses like hell on "It Takes a Man" and "The Dashboard."