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Overview
Keep on Loving You is contemporary country legend Reba McEntire's debut recording on the semi-independent Valory Music Company label's Starstruck imprint. It's her first new studio outing since her comeback effort, Duets, and her mammoth triple-disc hits package that fulfilled her contract to MCA Nashville, her label home for nearly 20 years. Despite its release on an indie, the production and approach are anything but, with the album being produced by Tony Brown and Mark Bright. The cream of country music's current chart crop wrote its 13 songs; it is certainly a radio-friendly collection that is supposed to showcase McEntire's adaptability and that she's still "got it," and can still score in the contemporary marketplace. There's no doubt that will happen, from the title track, a midtempo ballad that is saturated in compressed guitars and Hammond B-3, big repetitive choruses, and a chorus of fiddles and backing vocals. McEntire's voice hasn't lost even a touch of its range and power; she's a belter who can hang with the best of them. The set opener (and its first single), "Strange," with its acoustic guitars, mandolin, and fiddle intros, is like something from the backyard until about 20 seconds in, when a wall of guitars à la John Rich arrives and her vocal spits out lyrics that tell of a woman who feels strange that she should be wrecked after a love affair, but she's fine. It feels more like Gretchen Wilson than Reba McEntire. "I Want a Cowboy" and "Pink Guitar" sound more like McEntire is being backed by the Charlie Daniels Band circa 1979 than her own touring unit. "She's Turning 50 Today" is a trademark McEntire-delivered ballad about a woman who has been abandoned by her husband and decides to leave the wreckage of her life behind. It's the kind of bittersweet power ballad that the singer is famous for, and is delivered with characteristic aplomb even as the production behind her tries its hardest to get in the way. The bottom line here is that Keep on Loving You may jar some longtime Reba fans on first listen, but despite the record's sound it's all her in this mix, and they will more than likely celebrate this. As far as the new fans this set clearly hopes to gain, it's got the right elements; if country music's finicky youth-obsessed radio and video machine can hear this set for what it is, listeners will connect in droves.
Product Details
Release Date: | 08/18/2009 |
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Label: | Valory |
UPC: | 0843930002344 |
catalogNumber: | 3000234 |
Rank: | 39817 |
Tracks
Album Credits
Performance Credits
Reba McEntire Primary ArtistAshley Cleveland Background Vocals
Matt Rollings Piano,Hammond Organ,Hammond B3
Judson Spence Background Vocals
Eddie Bayers Drums
Shannon Forrest Drums
Paul Franklin Dobro,Steel Guitar
Kenny Greenberg Electric Guitar
Charles Judge Strings,Keyboards
Wayne Kirkpatrick Background Vocals
Brent Mason Electric Guitar
Gordon Mote Piano
Steve Nathan Piano,Keyboards,Hammond Organ,Hammond B3
Jimmie Lee Sloas Acoustic Guitar,Bass
Brian Sutton Acoustic Guitar,Banjo
Glenn Worf Bass
Aubrey Haynie Fiddle,Mandolin
Kim Keyes Background Vocals
Jason Sellers Background Vocals
Wes Hightower Background Vocals
Perry Coleman Background Vocals
Ilya Toshinsky Acoustic Guitar,Banjo
Katrina Elam Background Vocals
Tom Bukavac Electric Guitar
Jennifer Wrinkle Background Vocals
Mike Johnson Dobro,Steel Guitar
Technical Credits
Reba McEntire Composer,ProducerDerek Bason Engineer
Tony Brown Producer
Steve Diamond Composer
Wayne Kirkpatrick Composer
Steve Marcantonio Engineer
Darrell Scott Composer
Jimmie Lee Sloas Composer
Mark Bright Producer
Tommy Lee James Composer
Neil Thrasher Composer
Kim Fox Composer
Wendell Mobley Composer
James Slater Composer
Mark Nesler Composer
Rivers Rutherford Composer
Leslie Satcher Composer
Jason Sellers Composer
Shaye Smith Composer
Michael Dulaney Composer
Georgia Middleman Composer
Jamie O'Neal Composer
Todd Tidwell Engineer
Katrina Elam Composer
Liz Hengber Composer
Trey Fanjoy Director
Ed Hill Composer
Whitney Sutton Copy Coordination
Jimmy Melton Composer
Marv Green Composer