All of This Love

Pam Tillis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 5, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bmg Special Product
• ASIN: B0000667NU
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,323,086 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Deep Down

2. Mandolin Rain

3. Sunset Red and Pale Moonlight

4. It's Lonely Out There

5. The River and the Highway

6. You Can't Have a Good Time Without Me

7. Betty's Got a Bass Boat

8. Tequila Mockingbird

9. No Two Ways About It

10. All of This Love

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tillis shines on first self-produced set., March 16, 1999

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[e-mail] (Belle Harbor, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Of This Love (Audio CD)

Over three years after it's release, ALL OF THIS LOVE remains Tillis' most subtle, understated work. Rather than becoming overconfident by her Female Vocalist win less than a year before recording this album, the victory made Pam more contemplative. The result is an album that passes on big hooks and radio-ready ditties in favor of quiet production and atmospheric lyrical imagery. The opening track, "Deep Down," is a duet of sorts between Pam and her studio musicians, her voice playing off the fiddle and guitar in the verses and soaring above them in the heart-stopping bridge. Her take on Bruce Hornsby's "Mandolin Rain" strips the song down to it's barest bones, omitting the unnecessary third verse and revealing a tenderness and introspection in the lyrics that was drowned in the heavy production of the Hornsby original. "The River And The Highway" and the title track contain some of the most beautiful country metaphors ever recorded. Through it all, Pam shines with stunning vocals and shows her skill as a producer by avoiding cheap tricks and letting the substance shine through. Even "Betty's Got A Bass Boat" is given shades of irony by Pam's slightly mocking vocal performance. ALL OF THIS LOVE suggests what her 1998 opus EVERY TIME would later confirm: Pam Tillis is the most significant country voice of her generation.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Beginning Of The End?, July 13, 2002

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Chris S. "cscotts" (atlanta, ga United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Of This Love (Audio CD)

After releasing three consecutive first-rate albums(including the career-defining SWEETHEART'S DANCE), Pam Tillis released the first of what would be three consecutive good but not great albums. It's hard to say where ALL OF THIS LOVE goes wrong--again her choice of singles is impeccable('Deep Down', 'It's Lonely Out There')and she includes another tongue-in-cheek novelty in the vein of 'Cleopatra,Queen Of Denial'('Betty's Got A Bassboat') that isn't half bad. But none of the ballads here match her previous bests('Spilled Perfume', 'In Between Dances'), and though her take on Bruce Hornsby's 'Mandolin Rain' is literally inspired, the rest of the set,like much of her recent work, is just the opposite--pretty, but uninspired.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I wish this cd got more appreciation, November 14, 2004

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J. F Palmer (Tucker, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Of This Love (Audio CD)

I really wish this cd had gotten the appreciation it deserved. Her cover of Mandolin Rain is exquisite and the River and the Highway, as well as Tequila Mockingbird are superb as well. I thought Betty Got A Bass Boat to be completely out of place, and is why I'm not giving the cd five stars. That said, Pam's voice shines on this album and it is well worth her talent and anyone's time to check out.