After earning the first runner-up slot on the third season of Nashville Star, Jason Meadows proves himself a credible country artist on 2007’s 100% Cowboy. Meadows delivers his songs with more than a little strut in his stride and producer/songwriter Nick Pellegrino lets the singer show off his Ronnie Dunn-like growl on a number of hard-twanging tracks, including “Here I Come,” “Farm Girl” and the title tune. He gets positively earthy on “Country As a Dirt Clod,” a declaration of chip-kicker pride in the mode of Jason Aldean’s “Hicktown.” While Meadows can flaunt his redneck credentials with the best of them, he’s more appealing when he strikes a George Strait-like gentlemanly pose, as he does on the genial “Big Shot” and “San Antone Alone.”