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Trisha Yearwood - Where Your Road Leads Audio CD

A fair review of the Trisha Yearwood "Where Your Road Leads" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Trisha Yearwood reviews here, or go back to the Trisha Yearwood tabs.

Trisha Yearwood Band: Trisha Yearwood
Title: Where Your Road Leads
Rating:
Release Date: 1998-07-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: There Goes My Baby 2: Never Let You Go Again 3: That Ain't the Way I Heard It 4: Powerful Thing 5: Love Wouldn't Lie to Me 6: Wouldn't Any Woman 7: I'll Still Love You More 8: Heart Like a Sad Song 9: I Don't Want to Be the One 10: Bring Me All Your Lovin' 11: Where Your Road Leads - Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood

Duet with garth is not as great as i thought


Rest of cd is okay. I purchased this for the duet with Garth, but I didn't realize that for some reason this on this version you barely hear him. .


More Bite
It's stronger than her previous album, Real Live Woman, in that it has some songs with more energy to them, although there's still a fair amount of the low-key stuff too. This album is a healthy 4 stars. Good tunes on this one:

There Goes My Baby - soft and mellow
That Ain't the Way I Heard It - speeds up, song's about the rumor mill outing her man's activities to her

Powerful Thing - has zip and drive, good energy here
Wouldn't Any Woman
Bring Me All Your Lovin- has been done by others, including Alison Moorer. Trish's version is very good

Where Your Road Leads - strong duet with Garth Brooks.


scribbled on my heart
Better yet, she can work it in a full menu of directions. Trisha Yearwood has one of the big, bad female voices on the country scene.

'Easy' and 'sad' mark the rhythm and the tone, respectively, of the album's opening track. 'There Goes my Baby' is a classic country lament of lost love:

'There goes my baby, like the sun fallin' out of the clear blue sky. ' It may be conventional, but it's so good under Yearwood's stewardship. A bit of self-loathing colors the edges: 'Maybe this empty heart is all that I deserve / What kind of fool / Finds a perfect jewel and can't see how it shines / Til she's alone and cryin'.

Yes, it's good. But it's only a teaser to some even better tracks on this showcase album.

For example, love lost on track one is recovered on track two, the oh-so-easy 'Never Let You Go Again'. And the self-loathing of track one turns to steely self-confidence in the face of an unfaithful lover in the jaunty 'This Town Has Eyes'.

The first peak of this CD's multiple-peaked range comes with 'Love Wouldn't Lie to Me', a plaintive articulation of love's disingenuous possibilities. Here Yearwood's voice is full of injured strength, beautiful, seductive in its pain. Rarely do the edges of sanity shine so golden.

From there the CD rolls on it soulish way with hardly a moment that is less than superb.

You could conclude that Trisha Yearwood is to country music what Diana Krall is to jazz and not end up too far off the mark. There is a unhurried lushness in the voice of each of these women and a strength that exudes even from the most wounded lyrics.

Yearwood aims high with WHERE YOUR ROAD LEADS. Better yet, she hits her target.


Where Your Road Leads
I would recommend this album to people who really love to hear Trisha Yearwood sing, she has a great voice. I particularly like this song, but the album as a whole is terrific.


Typically classy album from Trisha
This album is typical, containing many great songs from some of the finest songwriters around (Annie Roboff, Jamie O'Hara, Al Anderson, Don Schlitz, Mark D Sanders, Dianne Warren, Carole King, Allison Moorer, Victoria Shaw and J D Souther among them), yet requiring several plays to really be appreciated. Of all the contemporary country singers to emerge in the nineties, Trisha was (and remains) my favorite although not by much. Many of the songs are ballads but there are some faster songs to provide variation. Trisha is always careful to select songs that mean something to her. I sense from the lyrics that her personal life was difficult at the time she recorded these songs.

The album opens with There goes my baby, a reflective ballad about a former lover. Maybe the second track, Never let you go again, is a sequel as it is about getting a second chance. Net comes a song about cheating, That ain't the way I heard it. Powerful thing (an up-tempo song about love) was a country top ten hit. After this comes a superb ballsd, Love wouldn't lie to me, but it did. As if to prove that love lies the next song, Wouldn't any woman, is about the end of a relationship. In contrast, I'll still love you more finds Trisha deeply in love. Heart like a sad song is about a woman (not Trisha) who cannot find lasting love whatever she tries. I don't want to be the one is about a relationship that is in difficulties. Bring me all your loving (the Allison Moorer song) is about missing somebody and wanting his love, not flowers. Allison's own version eventually appeared on one of her albums (The hardest part) two years after this album was released. The album closes with the title track, which is an excellent duet with Garth Brooks.

This is not as strong overall as some of Trisha's early albums but it is an album of very high quality that no Trisha fan should be without.


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