Barbara Mandrell - Ultimate Collection: Barbara Mandrell
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Artist: Barbara MandrellEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-07-31
Music Label: HIP-O
Soundtracks:
- Tonight My Baby's Coming Home
- The Midnight Oil
- Standing Room Only
- Married But Not To Each Other
- Woman To Woman
- Tonight
- Sleeping Single In A Double Bed
- (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Wanna Be Right
- Fooled By A Feeling
- Years
- Crackers
- The Best Of Strangers
- I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool - live duet with George Jones
- Till You're Gone
- In Times Like These
- One Of A Kind Pair Of Fools
- Happy Birthday Dear Heartache
- Only A Lonely Heart Knows
- There's No Love In Tennessee
- Angel In Your Arms
- Fast Lanes And Country Roads
- No One Mends A Broken Heart Like You
- I Wish That I Could Fall In Love Today
Music reviews of Ultimate Collection: Barbara Mandrell
Music Review: Guilty pleasure from purely innocent material
Rating: 3 Stars
I have to give credit when credit is due: Barbara Mandrell has one hell of a voice, really. Saying that she is simply another capable singer matched with incapable material--although true to a certain extent--would be too easy. Mandrell usually manages to make the best of whatever she's singing over. It is her voice that wins in the in the end, even with stronger material. Whether sounding heavy, soulful (How I would love to hear her match wits with Gladys Knight), deep, or husky, she is dexterous enough to tackle any musical style with convincing agility...except county. Mandrell has always been, as far as my ears are concerned and most of the material on this collection suggests, a pop singer. In concert she sings the gospel as if from the pulpit, heavily rocks the foundation from underneath the lightweight studio version of "In Times Like These", and raps like a true fan of the genre could. Although, her signature track, "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool", sounds more like novelty than a legitimate stab at country credo. Recorded during the peak of country's highly polished pop sheen it's no more than cute sentiment (but not necessarily a bad record), even with George Jones making an appearance at the end. Another Mandrell evergreen, "Years", would have fared much better without the trappings of its perfunctory country radio instrumentation. As well, "No One Mends A Broken Heart Like You" sounds too impeded by its downbeat honky-tonk posing. On the other hand, her rendition of "If Loving You Is Wrong I Don't Wanna Be Right" is surprisingly soulful and begs for immediate repeated listenings simply to hear Barbara's reading one more time; "Fooled By A Feeling" borrows more from the disco ball than it does from Nashville. Throughout it's the blatant pop offerings on this collection that make it so appealing: "Sleeping Double In A Double Bed" perhaps with a beefier production could have been her Pop Top 40 crossover years before "If Loving You Is Wrong..."; "Till You're Gone" features synthesizers as prominently as anything acoustic. "Angel In Your Arms" is almost as soulful as her previous triumph in R&B remake territory and "Happy Birthday Dear Heartache" is an enjoyable ode to Fifties balladry. It is her voice that makes all of these examples shine. This as good as Mandrell's material gets, and sometimes that's all that's necessary.
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