Randy Owen - One on One
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Artist: Randy OwenEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-11-04
Music Label: Broken Bow
Soundtracks:
- I Confess
- Holding Everything
- Like I Never Broke Her Heart
- Braid My Hair
- One on One
- Let's Pretend We're Strangers for the Night
- Slow and Steady
- Urban's on the Country Radio
- No One Can Love You Anymore
- Barbados
- Pray Me Back Home Again
Music reviews of One on One
Music Review: Owen Gets Initmate with "One on One"
Rating: 4 Stars
Prime Cuts: Braid My Hair, No One Can Love You Anymore, One on One
Alabama once had the iron clasp on the country charts with 42 number one hits and selling a staggering 73 million records. However, how the times have changed. With the turn of the millennium, these Country Hall of Fame receipts were struggling to etch a top 40 hit with their last major hit being the unfortunately titled "When It All Goes South." Fast forward a few years, the band is now without a major label contract and they have retired from touring. Nevertheless, such an ill-fated turn of events has not deterred Alabama's lead singer Randy Owen. Instead of resting in his laurels of past glories, Owen has decided to chart history again with this solo record. Just like John Anderson, Gretchen Wilson, Jewel, James Otto and Shannon Brown, Owen has enlisted one of Nashville's hottest producers John Rich (of the Big and Rich fame) to helm this new effort. Though Rich brings a much up-to-date lucrative feel to these paeans Owen has not abandoned his adroit ability to pick the right songs. Just like on those Alabama records, Owen wraps each note carefully with is warm (and at times husky) baritone making this truly giving this record a "one-on-one" intimacy.
After all these years, the undeniable métier of Owen is ability to conjure up heartfelt emotions through the ballads that he sings. No exception is the lead single "Braid My Hair," a tearjerker of a story song told of a little girl's wish of one day being able to braid her own hair after her chemo therapy treatments. Such exposition of real life narratives together with Owen's emotional rich delivery, truly make "Braid My Hair" a great song. Also, equally moving is the romantic "One on One," a blatant love song with a somber pandering of the piano, calls to mind the intimacy of Alabama's monster hit "Face to Face." Following in the grand tradition of great Alabama wedding anthems such as "Forever As Far As I'll Go" and "There's No Way," "No One Can Love You Anymore" is one of those big love bombastic ballads that still sounds so convincing and romantic. Similarly, ballad fans are sure to swoon with delight over the John Rich, Shannon Lawson and Randy Owen co-write "Let's Pretend We're Strangers Again" with its heart tugging message of a desperate couple trying to re-ignite their passions again.
Not that all is soft and mushy, Owen does kick off the disc with the propulsive "I Confess" (coming from the pens of Randy Owen, John Rich and James Otto) heightened by some searing 80s rock guitar and keyboard flourishes. A surprising writer to appear on the credits is Dolly Parton who penned "Holding Everything." It's a pretty average uptempo love song here finding Owen dueting with the average-sounding newbie Megan Mullins. If it were Parton herself singing with Owen that would certainly increase the aural equity of the song. Much better is the "Barbados," a breezy and relaxing mid-tempo that triumphs on its well researched details of the island nation. "Urban's on the Country Radio," a upbeat number with an excellent thumping baseline, was written by Owen himself after hearing continuously Keith Urban on country radio while he was in the subway.
The CD ends with a real dud "Pray Me Back Home Again," a reflective ballad of the events after 9/11. In a desperate attempt to be inspirational, Owen mixes everything stereo-typical into it: from the Lord's Prayer to the Pledge of Allegiance. And the end result is that "Pray Me Back Home" is so cheesy that it becomes a textbook example of how to write the most cliché song at the same time exploiting religion, patriotism and country music. Other than "Pray Me Back Home," "One on One" is a good solo debut for this veteran who has taken the best from his Alabama days and mixing it just right with the contemporary sounds of today (thanks to Rich).
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