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2.0étoiles sur 5
Corporate love, Oct. 7 2002
I've seen Lorrie Morgan live, and liked her stuff. I've always wanted to hear what Sammy Kershaw was like, so this seemed like the album to get. Boy, does the record company marketing department have me pegged. I guess if your a fan of either one of them, you're going to buy this, and maybe even like it, but I find, with a few exceptions, that this is a slappped together effort to get record sales more than decent effort at releasing some good work. For the most part, the slow numbers are lame and don't move me in the slightest as being a memorable love song. The exception is "29 Again", which is thoughtful, but that's about it. The Kershaw solo of "What a Wonderful World" adds nothing to the song, and can be done just a well as any lounge singer. Sorry country fans, but the recent Joey Ramone version at least tries to put some life into a song that you would think is unwreckable. There are two numbers that stand out, and if they had gone in that direction, we might have had something here. After five klunkers, "He Drinks Tequilla" is a spirited tune done by people who finally make me think that two people that like each other are singing it. Same goes for the closer "3 Seconds", where we have the lovebirds already preparing their future alibis. With, let's see, about 37 marriages between them, they both sound like they're singing from the heart on this one. I'm not a hard-core country fan, but I do have a big liking for Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle, and there is a mental altar of Johnny Cash in my mind. But I found a lyric in "Be My Reason" that I find quaint. The title is self-explanatory, and for the man's side, he is looking for a reason for life that goes BEYOND things like job promotions. On the female side, the HIGHEST need she sings about is that a woman "needs a reason to paint her lips and do her hair". She gets that, and her frying pan and mop, and boy, that's living!
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