All The Women I Am

Product Description Reba's 34th career studio album highlights include the smash hit, "Turn On the Radio," the break-out "Somebody's Chelsea," co-written by Reba, as well as the superstar's popular cover of Beyonce's hit, "If I Were A Boy," which became a viral sensation when she first performed the song on CMT Unplugged earlier this year. ALL THE WOMEN I AM, marks Reba's first project with award-winning producer Dann Huff (Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts) and her second album for The Valory Music Co. Review In the competitive music industry, longevity alone deserves recognition - especially when a career, like Reba McEntire's, spans more than 30 successful country albums. But ongoing relevance over mere legacy is even harder to come by. With "All the Women I Am," McEntire accomplishes both. Through these 10 tracks, McEntire reveals glimpses of her own life while opening a door to the challenges and accomplishments familiar to all women. The emotions of lost love are explored with brave fragility on "Cry" and with arena-rocking scorn in "Turn on the Radio." "When Love Gets A Hold of You" captures the sudden excitement of new love with a rumbling twang, while "Somebody's Chelsea" illustrates its undying possibilities. The title track is a classic horn-driven Nashville rave-up led by McEntire's defiantly powerful vocals, but the album's stand-out performance comes from the slow-burning, tender cover of Beyoncé's "If I Were a Boy." -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 9, 2010 Reba McEntire's new album, All the Women I Am, features a spirited rendition of Beyoncé's "If I Were a Boy," which you can hear above, and which got us thinking again about the tricky nature of cross-genre cover songs. McEntire remains true to the song's melody, save the addition of her country twang, but adds spare acoustic plucks and a slide guitar to make it her own. More importantly, the song's questions of gender identity lose no meaning when sung by McEntire, especially on an album about womanhood. In other words, it's not a joke. And that's usually the problem with these things: "The appeal of these experiments, if any, is primarily comedic but while it's funny to hear white people over-enunciate black slang, the gag quickly wears thin," wrote Jonah Weiner at Slate on the subject. So who else has done it right? Well, Beyoncé, for one... The diva took to infusing her own performances of "If I Were a Boy" with a section from Morissette's angsty 1995 smash. Though most Beyoncé albums don't feature much crushing, distorted guitar or swearing, what works here is her vocal strength and willingness to toss in bits of Morissette's own inflection. The professionalism of the arrangement keeps it from being funny, while the back-up singers' soulful handling of the pre-chorus highlights something you might have missed in the original, on account of Morissette's disturbed warble. Known far and wide from the above advertisement, and probably more famous than the original, González's stripped-down version of The Knife's churning, electronic original does without percussion, allowing the beauty of the vocal melody and lyrics come through. Like McEntire's cover, the Dixie Chicks don't do too much to disguise the Stevie Nicks original. In fact, none of the artists mentioned are too different (and all are liable to be found on your mother's iPod), but the freshness of the composition and additional instrumentation change the feel of the song enough to be considered cross-genre. And the vocal harmonies are ace. It sounds like a gimmick, but it's really not. Like "Heartbeats," an aging Cash doing the Nine Inch Nails song gives the lyrics new life, re-contextualizing the message. But where González did it through music, Cash can rely on circumstance. Additionally, Cash's version may have reached a few people who weren't listening to Trent Reznor in 1994. This one is obvious. Widely considered one of the best cover songs of all-time, Hendrix probably could have just laid down the opening guitar solo and called it a day. -- The Village Voice, November 10, 2010 Singer, actress, entrepreneur, designer, mother, step-mother, daughter, sister, wife, philanthropist ... Is there any hat that Reba doesn't wear? The Queen of Country Music has a lot going on outside of music! And that's just the way she likes it ... The Boot sat down with Reba at her own Starstruck Studios on Nashville's Music Row, to talk about her appropriately-titled 34th studio album, 'All the Women I Am,' which hit stores November 9. In this exclusive video interview, the iconic entertainer opens up about her new project and all of her many roles in life ... including the one that always chokes her up. 'All the Women I Am' includes Reba's sassy current hit, 'Turn on the Radio,' along with her co-penned 'Somebody's Chelsea,' a countrified version of Beyonce's 'If I Were a Boy' and seven other tracks of empowerment, love and heartache -- all themes that have run throughout t
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Author/Artist:Reba McEntire
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