LeAnn Rimes - S/T

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:25
Size: 88.0 MB
Styles: Country vocals
Year: 1996
Art: Front

[2:52] 1. Crazy
[3:29] 2. Don't Worry
[2:29] 3. Leavin' On Your Mind
[3:52] 4. Faded Love
[3:18] 5. Born To Lose
[3:08] 6. Cryin' Time
[3:14] 7. She's Got You
[2:53] 8. I Fall To Pieces
[2:39] 9. Your Cheatin' Heart
[2:45] 10. Lovesick Blues
[4:33] 11. Me And Bobby McGee
[3:09] 12. Big Deal

This is a collection of LeAnn Rimes's favorite country standards, plus one newly written hit, "Big Deal." Say what you will about this woman-child--yes, she really needs direction (the 11 remakes couldn't be more obvious choices) and a producer besides her dad. But she's slowly growing into her own style, which here falls somewhere between Patsy Cline, Brenda Lee, and Tammy Wynette. Especially Patsy. Her timing on "Crazy" is quirky enough to offset the ham-fisted arrangement, and she's not bad on "I Fall to Pieces," either; her efforts on "She's Got You," "Leavin' on Your Mind," and "Faded Love" (a Bob Wills song Cline cut) fall short. She also chooses "Your Cheatin' Heart" and "Lovesick Blues," two songs identified with Hank Williams that Cline recorded, and sings the latter like she knows what it means. The wanna-rock "Me and Bobby McGee" is a travesty, but at least she gets to act her age, sort of, on "Big Deal." ~John Morthland

LeAnn Rimes

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Leann Rimes - Lady & Gentlemen

Styles: Country
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:20
Size: 106,8 MB
Art: Front

(2:59)  1. Swingin'
(4:04)  2. Wasted Days And Wasted Nights
(2:36)  3. The Only Mama That’ll Walk The Line
(3:09)  4. I Can't Be Myself
(2:38)  5. 16 Tons
(2:58)  6. Help Me Make It Through The Night
(3:03)  7. Rose Colored Glasses
(3:38)  8. A Good Hearted Woman
(3:37)  9. When I Call Your Name
(3:48) 10. He Stopped Loving Her Today
(2:26) 11. Blue
(3:27) 12. The Bottle Let Me Down
(3:21) 13. Crazy Women
(4:31) 14. Give

As concept albums go, LeAnn Rimes’ 2011 album Lady & Gentlemen is a good one: a collection of masculine country classics reinterpreted by a female singer. Sometimes, this reinterpretation amounts to little more than swapping a gender “The Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line” becomes “The Only Mama That’ll Walk the Line,” Charlotte in John Anderson’s “Swingin'” becomes Charlie and some of these songs are standards that have often been sung by either gender (“Help Me Make It Through the Night”), but there are a few songs that do feel slightly different when sung by Rimes, including “A Good Hearted Woman” and “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” neither given a gender switch yet changing slightly with the perspective shift.

Generally, though, Lady & Gentlemen isn’t much more than a good straight-ahead covers album, given grit and tradition from co-producers Vince Gill and Darrell Brown, who give John Conlee’s “Rose Colored Glasses” a dusty beer joint kick and Gill’s own “When I Call Your Name” a soulful sway, and transform Merle Haggard’s “Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down” into a slow, spooky crawl, all moves that more than compensate for the too frenetic take on “Swingin'.” Throughout it all, Rimes hits her marks with ease, and the new version of her breakthrough hit “Blue” illustrates just how far she’s come how she’s become a stronger, more nuanced singer over the years. ~ Thomas Erlewine  http://www.allmusic.com/album/lady-gentlemen-mw0002203135

Lady & Gentlemen

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