I'll Fly Away - Tammy Wynette & George Jones

Advantages: Some great country-pop tracks
Disadvantages: Maybe too pop for country fans and too country for bubblegum pop fans

...It's confession time. Much as I try to deny it, I am a closet country music fan. I blame the influence of my father, who honestly believed that the antidote to my mother's constant playing of Elvis Presley and Cliff Richard records lay in the songs of Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers and Crystal Gayle. Maybe I should have told them they were both wrong, but that's kind of difficult when you're just a baby and haven't learned how to talk yet. Still, I thought I'd gotten away with it for many years. I survived my teens in that house by listening to rock music whilst sneering at the original rock 'n' roll my mother was playing. I honestly believed I meant it when I told my Dad that Tammy Wynette's song with the KLF was her best. I laughed like a drain at Billy Ray Cyrus' "Achy Breaky Heart", knowing that was music for my parents and I wasn... Read review

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Advantages: Some tracks (Nat "King" Cole, Louis Armstrong) are priceless
Disadvantages: Jimmy Durante? Celine Dion? Blecch!

...Soundtrax's "Sleepless in Seattle" should have been more enjoyable, or at least a bit more emotionally charged, but this Nora Ephron-Marc Shaiman produced album was more of a hit-and-miss affair at best. Yes, I like some of it, but in the end I found myself wishing I'd bought something nicer. Unlike the similarly-themed "Music from the Motion Picture When Harry Met Sally..." there is no single artist who carries the 12-song album. Not having seen the entire film -- despite its frequent airings around Valentine's Day -- I can't say for certain if the same artists featured here (Jimmy Durante, Louis Armstrong, Tammy Wynette and Gene Autry, just to name a few) are heard in the movie's soundtrack. (While I am a big fan of movie soundtracks and do buy them because I like the movies they are from, I also buy them for just the music.) To be fair... Read review

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Advantages: It's Reba - it's gonna be good!
Disadvantages: Can't think of any...

...~~~ARTIST~~~ Reba McEntire is a hugely popular country music start, especially in her native US, where her multi-million dollar business includes not only recording studios and labels, but clothes and homewears too! Born in McAlester, Oklahoma, in 1955, she's been in the music industry since the early 1980's. Her style of music has been described as "bridging the gap" between the 'traditional' country of Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn and the 'contemporary' country of the likes of LeAnn Rimes and Faith Hill. ~~~TRACKS~~~ 1. For My Broken Heart 2. Is There Life Out There 3. Bobby 4. He's in Dallas 5. All Dressed up (With Nowhere to Go) 6. Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia 7. Buying Her Roses 8. Greatest Man I Never Knew 9. I Wouldn't Go That Far 10. If I Had Only Known ~~~HIGHLIGHTS~~~ This CD was special for Reba... Read review

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