"I'm in Love All Over" is an up-tempo rocker with some hot picking.
"She's Single Again" is a classic honky-tonk song, with some neat guitar/steel unison riffs. Compare this arrangement to Janie Fricke's pop version of the same song. This is just a matter of preference, but for me this just blows Janie away completely.
"The Great Divide" is an early Reba tear-jerker, with the steel guitar crying along with her.
"Have I Got a Deal For You" is a swing tune, with an awesome fiddle solo.
"Red Roses" is a slow, sad country lament, also with great fiddle and steel backup.

Needless to say, Reba was one Heeeeeeeel of a country singer. BTW, she sang "Right or Wrong" on a recent Asleep at the Wheel album ("Ride with Bob"); she can still do it. (The Dixie Chicks did "Roly Poly.")

The other side is OK, but when I play side 1, I'm in Country Heaven!!

I don't know whether this album is still available or not, but I highly recommend it to anyone who likes "New Traditional" country.

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Have a good 'un! JH U-12

This is Reba at her best,not a bad song on it and with a lot of good steel from Sonny Garrish and Doyle Grisham.

I have "My Kind of Country," and it's another of my favorite Reba albums. Has a couple of Patsy Cline songs on it.

She did a couple more, then "Heart to Heart," in 1981 contained "Today All Over Again" and a lot of pop stuff. That's the first one I own. 1982's "Unlimited" had "You're the First Time I Thought about Leaving," which someone mentioned and "I'm Not That Lonely Yet."

In 1984 she went to MCA from Mercury and did "Just a Little Love," which I'm not familiar with, then "Have I Got a Deal for You," "Reba Nell McEntire" (ugh!) and "My Kind of Country" (1986). At this point, she was one of my favorite country artists. I saw her live and she was great!

Her next two albums, both still in '86, were "Whoever's in New England" and "What Am I Going to Do about You," which really, to me, defined a new direction for her. Many of these were the overly dramatic, "soap-opera" songs that have become her trademark. The next time I went to see her live, in the Oakland Arena, she did about 3 costume changes. The only country-sounding stuff she did was a medley of the "early stuff," after which the steel and fiddle players might just as well have left the stage. I walked out before the end and haven't bought any Reba since.

Cheers,
Alan Shank

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I like the one Reba did, "I Want to Hear it From You." I believe it was an old Price tune, but she did a great job on it. I also had the opportunity to put it on my album, and have Gregg Galbraith do the guitar part on it--Gregg did the guitar part for Reba on that song.

"The Fiddlist,"
Jeneé

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Sad. Very sad!

And I have to go a long with Dean Dobbins on this one. While she did sing some country, most was never and is not country IMHO. She like sooooo many more go the pop route and turn their backs on what "brung 'em to the dance!"

This yelling, hollering, bellering form of singing that she, Faith Hill, Martina and others do is a far "cry" from country I believe.

God bless true country music,

carl

[This message was edited by C Dixon on 28 July 2000 at 05:46 AM.]

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This yelling, hollering, bellering...

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Obviously, you're a smitten fan, Carl. Quit being so generous with your praise.

[This message was edited by Jeff Evans on 28 July 2000 at 10:39 AM.]

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One of the most memorable concerts I have ever seen was when she introduced her band and they played a medley of Four Wheel Drive, Sugar Foot Rag, and OBS! Donny Lavalley on steel. Where is he now? It was one of the tightest bands I've seen. Unlike some of the greats who put on sloppy shows.

Bill C.