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"Trisha Yearwood offers up some memorable story songs on this follow-up to 2005’s Jasper County, infusing each tale with her pitch-perfect delivery. “Nothin’ ‘Bout Memphis” finds a guilt-ridden woman hiding a past romance from her current lover, while “Dreaming Fields” is an achingly beautiful reminiscence of a 1940s couple who lose the family farm. But the mood here is not all downbeat. “Nothin’ About You Good Is For Me” is a boisterous rebuke of a low-down lothario, and “Cowboys Are My Weakness” is a loping two-stepper that playfully nods to hubby Garth Brooks."
- People Magazine
"If Trisha Yearwood’s first album in two years get overshadowed by Garth Brooks’ ultimate-hit hoopla, then that’s a real shame. Her album may not arrive with the fanfare of her husband’s, but what an album it is. It delivers everything its title promises and then some: a couple of blues-rocking barnburners, a little Memphis soul, some cooing cowboy swing and perfectly wrought ballads that Yearwood sings with the emotional precision of a latter-day Tammy Wynette."
- Brian Mansfield, USA Today
"In Trisha Yearwood's case, a change in working conditions yielded marvelous results. For her first album released by Big Machine, the Georgia native has crafted a masterpiece every bit as good as anything she created for her former longtime label, MCA Nashville.
At this point in her career, one might not expect Yearwood to record songs as powerful as classics like "The Song Remembers When" and "How Do I Live," but that's exactly what she has done. The ballads on this album showcase one of the finest voices in all of contemporary music. That Yearwood happens to operate in the country genre is a blessing for everyone in Music City.
The piano-based ballad "This Is Me You're Talking To" is a tearjerker about old lovers who bump into each other and share an awkward conversation. "The Dreaming Fields" is a tour de force lamenting the death of relatives and the end of family farming as a way of life. "Sing You Back to Me" has only two instruments -- an acoustic guitar and Yearwood's voice -- and that spare arrangement is not only brave, but also the perfect treatment for a lyric expressing the wish that a deceased loved one could return to life. Each of these three ballads is as good as any mainstream country hit of 2007.
Listeners would need a whole box of tissues to soak up their tears if this album contained nothing but ballads. Fortunately, Yearwood also can cut loose with uptempo material, as she does on the humorous "Nothin' About You Is Good for Me" and the sassy "Drown Me."
Other Nashville divas might get more attention than the mighty Trisha, but she can sing circles around all of them. Every single one of them."
- Bobby Reed, Chicago Sun Times
- People Magazine
"If Trisha Yearwood’s first album in two years get overshadowed by Garth Brooks’ ultimate-hit hoopla, then that’s a real shame. Her album may not arrive with the fanfare of her husband’s, but what an album it is. It delivers everything its title promises and then some: a couple of blues-rocking barnburners, a little Memphis soul, some cooing cowboy swing and perfectly wrought ballads that Yearwood sings with the emotional precision of a latter-day Tammy Wynette."
- Brian Mansfield, USA Today
"In Trisha Yearwood's case, a change in working conditions yielded marvelous results. For her first album released by Big Machine, the Georgia native has crafted a masterpiece every bit as good as anything she created for her former longtime label, MCA Nashville.
At this point in her career, one might not expect Yearwood to record songs as powerful as classics like "The Song Remembers When" and "How Do I Live," but that's exactly what she has done. The ballads on this album showcase one of the finest voices in all of contemporary music. That Yearwood happens to operate in the country genre is a blessing for everyone in Music City.
The piano-based ballad "This Is Me You're Talking To" is a tearjerker about old lovers who bump into each other and share an awkward conversation. "The Dreaming Fields" is a tour de force lamenting the death of relatives and the end of family farming as a way of life. "Sing You Back to Me" has only two instruments -- an acoustic guitar and Yearwood's voice -- and that spare arrangement is not only brave, but also the perfect treatment for a lyric expressing the wish that a deceased loved one could return to life. Each of these three ballads is as good as any mainstream country hit of 2007.
Listeners would need a whole box of tissues to soak up their tears if this album contained nothing but ballads. Fortunately, Yearwood also can cut loose with uptempo material, as she does on the humorous "Nothin' About You Is Good for Me" and the sassy "Drown Me."
Other Nashville divas might get more attention than the mighty Trisha, but she can sing circles around all of them. Every single one of them."
- Bobby Reed, Chicago Sun Times
Trisha Yearwood
HEAVEN, HEARTACHE AND THE POWER OF LOVE
