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My Kind of Country
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0076743110825
Label: Mca Special Products
Manufacturer: Mca Special Products
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Mca Special Products
Release Date: October 25, 1990
Studio: Mca Special Products
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Editorial Review:
After eight lackluster years on Mercury, Reba McEntire signed with MCA in the early 1980s and good things soon started happening. With this spirited retro country-honky-tonk-Western swing album, she boldly laid claim to her Oklahoma musical heritage. She also placed herself at the forefront of the "new traditionalist" movement that was starting to gather steam in Nashville at the time. Many of the songs on My Kind of Country are thrilling steel- and fiddle-adorned remakes of oldies by Ray Price, Carl Smith, Faron Young, and Connie Smith. The immense critical acclaim that My Kind of Country garnered quickly catapulted McEntire through the ranks of the also-rans and finally made her a viable contender for stardom. --Bob Allen
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Traditional, Traditional, TRADITIONAL!!!
This album contains mostly Traditional songs for country. As I said in my "Just A Little Love" Review, this album is what saved Reba from getting fired from MCA. This album was produced by Harold Shedd, the last time in the 80's Reba would work with anyone other than Jimmy Bowen. It yielded 2 #1 hits, How Blue and Somebody Should Leave. Both of which are on her Greatest Hits Vol. 1. If you're not too much of a fan of traditional, buy that instead, but if you are purchase this! Before I Met You is ... Read More
Rating: - Back to the old days
Reba's last official Mercury album, Behind the scene, was more traditional than its predecessors but her first MCA album, the brilliant but often overlooked Just a little love, had more of a pop-country sound to it. So, this album came as something of a surprise, with its ultra-traditional sound reinforced by the cover picture showing Reba set against a mountainous background - something that pop-country fans would instinctively steer clear of unless they also like traditional country.
The album ... Read More
Rating: - SIMPLY...THE BEST REBA EVER DID!!
No one can touch Reba when she is produced intelligently and when she sings traditional country!! She rivals the greatest country female singer of all time....Patsy Cline. This tremendous offering will show you why. Every cut could have been a number one!! She is totally in her element. Producer, Harold Shedd, kept her trademark 'tripling of syllables' to a minimum and the result is simply the best package of songs ever assembled for a Country Recording. Reba shines on every number and its impossible ... Read More
Rating: - How Blue.
How Blue Is One Of Reba's Best Hits Today. This Is The Fallow-Up To Just A Little Love. My Favorite Songs Are: "Somebody Should Leave", And "How Blue". It Is Great For Any Reba Fan.
Rating: - Reba's first landmark album
Contemporary country fans BEWARE....this is country as it was meant to be. My Kind of Country is still considered one of the ground breaking albums in country music. At the height of pop-country when Barbara Mandrell and Dolly Parton dominated the charts with cross-over hits, a little known artist who had been around for over 6 years recording music decided she was finally going to do things her way....and this album is the result. Containing the #1 hits "How Blue," and "Somebody Should ... Read More
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