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| Reba Mcentire > Albums & Lyrics |
Behind The Scene Album- Pins And Needles
- Why Do We Want What We Know
- One Good Reason
- You Really Better Love Me After This
- Nickel Dreams
- Reasons
- Is It Really Love
| Best Of Reba Mcentire Album- You Lift Me Up To Heaven
- Today All Over Again
- My Turn
- Only You (And You Alone)
| Feel The Fire Album- I Can See Forever In Your Eyes
- My Turn
- If I Had My Way
- Long Distance Lover
- You Lift Me Up To Heaven
- Tears On My Pillow
| For My Broken Heart Album- If I Had Only Known
- Buying Her Roses
- The Greatest Man I Never Knew
- All Dressed Up (With Nowhere To Go)
- The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
- Is There Life Out There
- Bobby
- For My Broken Heart
| Greatest Hits Album- What Am I Gonna Do About You
- SOMEBODY SHOULD LEAVE
- Only In My Mind
- One Promise Too Late
- Little Rock
- How Blue
- Just A Little Love
- He Broke Your Memory Last Night
- Have I Got A Deal For You
| Have I Got A Deal For You Album- Only In My Mind
- Whose Heartache Is This Anyway
- Have I Got A Deal For You
- Great Divide
| Heart To Heart Album- Love By Love
- Small Two Bedroom Starter
- Who?
- Gonna Love Ya (Till The Cows Come Home)
- Today All Over Again
- Only You (And You Alone)
- Ease The Fever
- How Does It Feel To Be Free
- Indelibly Blue
| If You See Him Album- Wrong Night
- All This Time
- Lonely Alone
- Heart Hush
- Face To Face
- Up And Flying
- Forever Love
- Invisible
- One Honest Heart
- If You See Him
| Just A Little Love Album- Silver Eagle
- If Only
- He Broke Your Memory Last Night
- Every Second Someone Breaks A Heart
- Poison Sugar
- Just A Little Love
| Last One To Know Album- The Stairs
- What You gonna Do About Me
- Someone Else
- Just Across the Rio Grande
- The Girl Who Has Everything
- The Last One To Know
| Live Album- You Must Really Love Me
- Sunday Kind of Love
- Sweet Dreams
- Somebody Up There Likes Me
- So, So, So Long
- San Antonio Rose
- One Promise Too Late
- Respect
- Night Life
- New Fool At An Old Game
- Mama Tried
- Little Rock
- Little Girl
- Let The Music Lift You Up
- Jolene
- I Know How He Feels
| Love Collection Album- New Love
- Little Girl
- Walk On
- Say The Word
- You Must Really Love Me
- Somebody Up There Likes Me
- Am I the Only One Who Cars
- It Always Rains on Sunday
- To Make That Same Mistake Again
- One Thin Dime
- If You Only Knew
- You Can Take The Wings Off Me
- Little Rock
- Why Not Tonight
| Merry Christmas To You Album- The Christmas Song
- A Christmas Letter
- White Christmas
- Happy Birthday Jesus
- Silent Night
- On This Day
- THE CHRISTMAS GUEST
- AWAY IN THE MANGER
- O HOLY NIGHT
| My Kind Of Country Album- Before I Met You
- SOMEBODY SHOULD LEAVE
- Everything But My Heart
- I Want To Hear It From You
- How Blue
| Oklahoma Girl Album- Lovin You, Lovin Me
- Heart
- My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own
- A Cowboy Like You
| Out Of Dream Album- Sweet Dreams
- Rain Fallin
- Runaway Heart
- Make Me Feel Like A Woman Wants To Feel
- That Makes Two Of Us (With Jacky Ward)
- Daddy
- (I Still Long To Hold You) Now And Then
| Read My Mind Album- Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
- Till You Love Me
- And Still
- She Thinks His Name Was John
- Read My Mind
- I Wish That I Could Tell You
- Everything That You Want
| Reba Album- Wish I Were Only Lonley
- Everytime You Touch Her
- Do Right By Me
- I Know How He Feels
- Silly Me
- Respect
- New Fool At An Old Game
- Sunday Kind of Love
- So, So, So Long
| Reba Mcentire Album- Right Time Of The Night
- Invitation To The Blues
- Take Your Love Away
- I Was Glad To Give My Everything To You
- Angel In Your Arms
- One To One
- Glad I Waited Just For You
| Reba Nell Mcentire Album- Waiting For The Sun To Shine
- Good Friends
- Empty Arms
- Love Is Never Easy
- Hold On
- Muddy Mississippi
| Room to Breathe Album- It Just Had to Be This Way
- Somebody
- Sky Full of Angels
- Room to Breathe
- He Gets That Room
- Love Revival
- Moving Oleta
- If I Had Any Sense Left at All
- My Sister
- Secret
| Rumor Has It Album- You Remember Me
- This Picture
- Now You Tell Me
- Fancy
- You Lie
- Rumor Has It
- Climb That Mountain High
| Secret Of Giving Album- This Christmas
- The Secret Of Giving
- The Angels Sang
- Santa Claus Is Coming Back To Town
- Up On The Housetop
- Mary, Did You Know?
- One Child, One Day
- This Is My Prayer For You
- I Saw Mama Kissing Santa Claus
| So Good Together Album- Back Before The War
- Where You End And I Begin
- Nobody Dies From A Broken Heart
- Roses
- I Like It That Way
- What Do You Say
- Til I Said It To You
| Starting Over Album- By The Time I Get To Phoenix
- Starting Over Again
- Five Hundred Miles Away From Home
- On My Own
- Talking In Your Sleep
- Please Come To Boston
- Ring On Her Finger, Time On Her Hands
| Sweet Sixteen Album- Walk On
- A New Love
- Little Girl
- Say The Word
- Somebody Up There Likes Me
- You Must Really Love Me
- Am I The Only One Who Cares
- It Always Rains On Saturday
- Till Love Comes Again
| The Last One To Know Album- Stairs
- What You gonna Do About Me
- Someone Else
- Just Across the Rio Grande
- Last One To Know
- Girl Who Has Everything
| Unlimited Album- Over, Under, And Around
- Old Man River
- Out Of The Blue
- What Do You Know About Heartache
| Vol. 2-Greatest Hits Album- Walk On
- You Lie
- The Greatest Man I Never Knew
- They Asked About You
- Rumor Has It
- Is There Life Out There
- For My Broken Heart
- Fancy
- Does He Love You (With Linda Davis)
| What Am I Gonna Do About You Album- Till It Snows In Mexico
- No Such Thing
- Let The Music Lift You Up
- My Mind Is On You
- What Am I Gonna Do About You
- Take Me Back
- Why Not Tonight
| You Lift Me Up To Heaven Album- Glad I Waited Just For You
- Right Time Of The Night
- Ease The Fever
- One To One
- You Lift Me Up To Heaven
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Reba McEntire never wanted to take four years between albums. But along the way she encountered a couple of diversions - including garnering commanding reviews for her starring role in the hit Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun and launching her successful new TV series, Reba.
As much as she missed recording and singing, her absence allowed her a chance to recharge her musical batteries. Now she's ready to return to her first love with a renewed perspective and a stronger-than-ever commitment. In doing so, she's turned Room To Breathe into a celebration of the sum of her strengths, creating a stunningly emotional, wide-ranging album that underscores why she's the most remarkable and accomplished female country singer of her generation.
"I'm proud of all the music I've recorded and not to sound egotistical " Reba remarks, "but I think this is the best collection of songs that I've ever had on one album."
While she worried about staying away so long - this is also the first time she's ever gone more than two years without staging a concert tour - she figures that the break allowed her a chance to re-evaluate what she loves about singing country music. Like the title song says, it gave her room to breathe. Now, having exhaled, she savored the chance to record again, and she did so with more vigor and resolve than ever.
"There's something about having been away from the routine of the music business that ended up being refreshing to me,� she says with her typical aplomb. “By getting away from it for a little while, it all feels fresh and new again. It's got a crisp feeling to it. It's just felt so wonderful to get back to music again.�
It shows. Room To Breathe soars with exuberance and sighs with heartbreaking subtlety, showing the full range of Reba's remarkable powers. The album shows off the traits that transformed the redhead from tiny Chockie, Oklahoma, into the most important and influential female country singer of her generation.
“I started with this CD the same way I did with all the others, I just tried to find the best songs I could,� she explains. “But I wasn't going to be persuaded by anything other than one question: Does this song touch my heart? Even if someone else thought a certain song would be a hit, I wasn't going to record it if it didn't flat out move me to the core. I didn't want to pay attention to trends and politics. I just wanted to pay attention to what I felt inside.�
Of course, moving listeners is what Reba does as well as anyone alive. It's why she became the first country female artist to sell five million albums on one album since Patsy Cline. It's why she's now sold more than 48 million albums in her career. That’s why stars like Faith Hill, Martina McBride and Trisha Yearwood cite Reba McEntire as a prime influence.
That influence has manifested itself in many ways. As a role model, she's shown others how to handle fame with grace and good humor while never backing down from her values or goals. Just as importantly, she's shown others to refuse to accept limitations on what she can do or how much she can achieve.
“Whatever I'm doing, I feel like I'm representing country music,� Reba says. “It's always been my main career, and it's where my loyalties lie. I feel like I'm waving the flag of country music wherever I go, and I couldn't be prouder to do it.�
Room To Breathe confirms Reba's dedication to Nashville and the music that launched her one-of-a-kind career. To continue her fresh break, she collaborated with veteran producers Buddy Cannon and Norro Wilson, the latter of whom worked with Reba on her first album for MCA Records in 1984.
“They're a great team. They're both such good song guys, and that's what this album is about for me - the songs,� she says. “I always wanted to work with Norro again, and I've always been a fan of Buddy's work. They're laid-back, fun to work with, and true professionals, I couldn't ask for more.�
For the up tempo songs, Reba wanted a contemporary sound that drew on traditional sounds like bluegrass, hardcore country and gospel. Her first single, “I’m Gonna Take That Mountain,� features banjo, fiddle and dobro in a brisk, modern setting that allows Reba to show off her powerful voice and her equally powerful spirit. A song about conquering new peaks, it fits with Reba's recent accomplishments as well as her career-long attraction to songs that address women who go after what they want in life.
Two other songs - the romping “Love Revival� and the stirring “Sky Full of Angels� - both bring a sense of spiritual strength to Reba's repertoire. “I love those songs because they make you feel so good when you sing them and they are so right for our times,� she says. “They have a message that I think is really important. I'm so glad that patriotism and spiritualism are coming back to country music. It's more rooted and grounded in the values of home and family. We need that.�
Of course, Reba's always tapped into the tender aspects of human relationships with particular sensitivity. Room To Breathe presents several exceptional songs about life's complexities, including the title song, which finds a woman gently asking her lover for space to find herself. She doesn't want to lose him, but she also wants “to make sure I don't lose me.�
Similarly, “Learned To Be Lonely,� “He Gets That From You� and “It Just Has To Be That Way� (the latter an exquisitely performed duet with Vince Gill) all find Reba breathing life and depth into individuals caught in moments of painful reflection and transition. Reba gives the lead character of each song a flesh-and-blood dignity that underscores why she attracts so many fans both within the country music faithful and from those who may not have considered themselves country fans in the past.
Other songs celebrate the special bonds of family. “My Sister� honors the unique ties of female siblings with a kind of knowing detail that's personal yet universal. “My older sister Alice was in Nashville as we were recording that song,� Reba recalls. “She came with us to the studio as we were putting harmonies on it, and when she heard the lyrics, oh she just cried. She loved it. We're very close.�
“Moving Oleta� deals with a more difficult reality - that of a loved one with Alzheimer's disease. Reba's tackled sensitive subjects like this before, and once again she creates an unforgettable performance that will bring tears in a way that encourages healing and discussion.
“Alzheimer's has touched everybody's life in some way. 'If you don't have someone in your family or someone close to you who has Alzheimer's, you're in a minority.' As soon as I heard that song, I knew it had to be on the album.�
It's exactly those kinds of songs that have made Reba a household name. Like Oprah, another down-home woman whose compassion and talent turned her into the most approachable of entertainment idols, Reba has a way of raising issues and representing the dreams, desires and concerns that link people of all cultures and backgrounds.
It's that quality that has allowed Reba to branch out beyond any one medium. Whatever venue she tackles, she brings the same strong sense of herself and the same ability to engage people with her personality and talent.
Her move to Broadway obviously presented an enormous challenge - she'd never performed in a play, yet she leapt right into the starring role of one of the most successful and demanding shows on Broadway. She earned rave reviews across-the-board, winning over critics and audiences alike.
The famous celebrity columnist Liz Smith crowned her “the Queen of Broadway,� and USA Today suggested “you'd swear Irving Berlin wrote it just for her.� New York Times critic Ben Brantley became one of her biggest champions throughout the run, at one point describing Reba as “a nonchalant showoff, making a highly polished performance seem so easy that you wonder why we aren't all Broadway stars.�
Reba brought the same naturalness to her leading role in the hit WB Network sitcom that bears her name. “I think the Reba character is a lot like me,� she says. “The writers have gotten to know me, so they make her more like me all the time. We have spiritual people writing and working on this show. People with good hearts who want to set good examples like putting a lot of moral values into the character...the kind that Mama and Daddy taught me. That's what makes the show so special and fun for me.�
Meanwhile, Reba looks forward to taking her new music to the concert stage. “In 25 years, this is the longest break I've taken from live performing,� she says. “I needed a break, to be honest. But now I'm ready. The fans always make it really special, and I miss it.�
That word - heart - keeps coming up as Reba talks about her music these days. For someone who's accomplished so much, who's reached so far beyond her wildest dreams, everything still comes back to the same quality that initially drew her to music and to performance in the first place. Reba McEntire has succeeded so well because she knows what's important: sharing her heart, and touching other people's hearts.
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