Trisha Yearwood - Songbook: A Collection of Hits
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Free Music Review: You'll like this collection
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought Trisha Yearwood's Songbook: A Collection of Hits mainly because of the hit song "How Do I Live". I also like Lee Ann Rimes' version of the song, but I think Trisha's version is better than Lee Ann's because of the way Trisha sings it. She has a powerful voice that stays with you. The other two previously unreleased hit songs, "Perfect Love" and "In Another's Eyes"(Trisha's duet with longtime friend Garth Brooks), are also outstanding, and after you get past these songs, there are enough of Trisha's hits on this album to make the collection a great one. Here are the highlights, in my opinion: "She's In Love With The Boy"(Trisha's first hit song and my personal favorite among her songs), "Walkaway Joe"(on which ex-Eagle Don Henley sings background vocals), "Wrong Side Of Memphis", "The Song Remembers When", and "Like We Never Had A Broken Heart". Also, "The Woman Before Me", "Thinkin' About You", "XXX's And OOO's(An American Girl)" and "Down On My Knees" are solid, well-done songs. I've listened to Songbook a lot of times, and there is not a bad song on here. Trisha was careful to pick her best songs for this record, and for that, I give her five stars.Free Music Review: Beautiful Variety for Trisha's work
Hit: 4 Stars
I was not a huge fan of country music until for Christmas I got a tape of this album, and I absolutely adored it. My favorite song from here has to be "I've been Livin' on the Wrong Side of Memphis", what a beautiful song, and all the others, I strongly encourage everyone to buy this album, it is beneficial, yet astonishing in its own sense of way. 4 stars.Free Music Review: This can be played over and over!
Hit: 5 Stars
I have had this CD in my car for about two months and I am not bored with it yet. I am normally not a country fan, however Trisha Yearwood transcends labels. She is a great singer and the cuts on this album are really a great collection starting with the theme from ConAir, "How Do I Live" to her duet with Garth - "In Another's Eyes". "The Song Remembers When" is one you'll want to hear if you haven't and you'll tap your foot to "The Wrong Side of Memphis". Actually, every song on this album is a winner! I am looking forward to getting Trisha's next album!Free Music Review: Heartwrenching lyrics, soulful voice
Hit: 5 Stars
Trisha Yearwood is one of the most talented singers in any popular genre. This album highlights her most popular hits in recent years. My favorites are: How Do I Live, The Song Remembers When, Down on My Knees (of course arranging those titles in a different order would be humorous). But don't let my bizzare sense of humor put you off.....listen to samples and then buy the CD, it's wonderful.Free Music Review: Great Introduction To Trisha
Hit: 5 Stars
If Linda Ronstadt had gotten started in the `90s instead of the `60s, she'd be Trisha Yearwood. Well not really, but we wouldn't need both of them. Besides their obviously similar sopranos, they share other vocal traits, be it a zestful exhuberance on a toe-tapper or an aching sensivity on a MOR ballad. And while neither write their own material, they both possess the impressive ability to regularly interpret a tune better than the originator.For Yearwood, that also includes being able to select first-rate material. The hits assembled on (Songbook) are some of the most stimulating to emerge from Nashville in the `90s. "She's In Love With The Boy" is a light-hearted white-trash tale where young love conquers all while "XXX's and OOO's" cheerfully depicts a working woman trying to balance it all in a hectic modern world - with a little help from Aretha Franklin and Patsy Cline. Those romps are offset by some stunning ballads; in particular, the tragic teen saga "Walk Away Joe," with lovely harmonies from Don Henley, and the comparitive yet understanding "The Woman Before Me." Fast or slow, jovial or serious, all are deserved hits.
In addition to the prior hits, (Songbook) offers three new selections. The first single, "How Do I Live," from the film Con Air, is a delightfully inspirational ode of devotion. It is easy to see why Yearwood's womanly version has beaten LeAnn Rimes' rival girlish version on the country charts (age does wonders for believability when it comes to love songs). Yet even more high profile than that Con Air song battle is the second single, "In Another's Eyes," which presents the mega-event pairing of Yearwood with Garth Brooks. Too bad the song itself is so ordinary. Likewise, the uptempo third new track, "Perfect Love," with lines such as "yeah, this is a perfect love, we're doing nothing, but, what a perfect love does..." Yadda, yadda, yadda.
If Yearwood wanted another uptempo number to add some pep to this ballad-heavy collection, she should have gone with the raucous "That's What I Like About You" from her 1991 self-titled debut album. It's the only major omission on this twelve track set (along with recent hits "Baby I Lied" and "Everybody Knows" which were left off to maximize sales of this collection's predecessor, the Everybody Knows album). Still, all of the prior hits found here are just as good (if not quite as infectious). For those consumers of pop and adult contemporary who want to add a little country to their diet, (Songbook) is a great place to start.