Customer Reviews

Born to Fly (+1 Bonus Track)

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I have had this cd for two days and already it is my all-time favorite. It has a perfect mix of ballads and up-tempo songs. Sara Evan's voice is unbelievably soothing. It contains a wonderful remake of the song "Just a Little Kiss" by Bruce Hornsby who performs the song with her on this cd. All of her songs on this cd are superb. I highly recommend this cd for country music fans!

I've always thought Sara Evans was an excellent singer, but just pair her up with this set of excellent songs and she demonstrates she was definately "Born to Fly". This is one of the best CD's I've purchased in a while and I'm an avid collector of all types of music. It' so hard to pick a favorite song because they are all so good. I just bought this today and have listened to it three times all the way through without stopping. I recommend this to anyone and predict lots of sales. I rate it #1

When Sara Evans emerged on the scene in 1997, she seemed to be a neo-traditionalist in the vein of fellow newcomer Lee Ann Womack and the great Patty Loveless. With No Place That Far in 1998, she began to merge the country side with slight country-pop leanings. Born To Fly completes this transformation, with the country-pop taking dominance on the album. That said, this is a great country-pop album, straddling the fence without going the Faith/Shania route. Saints and Angels is one of the best songs I've heard all year, and she actually makes the Diane Warren composition I Could Not Ask For More sound like something other than a throwaway track. This album should firmly establish Evans as one to watch.

I didn't think Sara could top her excellent Three Chords And The Truth CD, but she did. Sara has a lovely voice that reminds me of Patty Loveless's voice, only Sara's is a little lower. "I Learned That From You," a gorgeous and well written song about the different stages of love, sounds like it could have been done by Patty. Most songs, however, do have Sara's unique stamp on them. It helps to use some musicians who don't seem like they are on every other country album. She's going a bit in the direction Terri Clark did on Fearless. Which means a more elaborate sound than before. The rocking "I'm Still Looking" is more straightforward, but not cookie cutter either. "Saints And Angels" tells a nice tale about how we aren't perfect, but in moments of love, we can show power that saints and angels have. It's very insprational and another beautiful song. The rising "You Don't" will definitely stop you in your tracks with how it's constructed to unleash the full force of Sara's voice. Definitely this is an important country CD for your collection.

Imagine this...an album full of good songs...no you are not dreaming, this is one of those albums. Every track is sung with passion and the lyrics aren't just teenieboppin fluff to fill in the time between radio singles . What stands out for me is Sara's unique voice...strong, sassy, and yet soothing. I can listen to this cd over and over again...every track. My favs are 'Four-Thirty', 'I Learned That From You', 'Saints and Angels' and 'Why Should I Care'. There is plenty of range from upbeat to sad songs, both of which Sara performs beautifully. This is a classic, one that I know I will listen to years from now and love it just as much as the first week I listened to it. If you are not familiar with Sara, this is the cd to buy!!

Sara Evans is a great country singer, witness "Three Chords and the Truth". She is also a great modern country artist, witness "No Place That Far".

"Born to Fly" is a another good set of music. There isn't a bad song on the whole album. That's the good news. The bad news is that "Born to Fly" contains 5 minutes of country music and 47 minutes of pop-groove country-ish music. The songs are very listenable, even repeatedly listenable, but there's just too much "twain" and too little "twang" in this stuff. With the exception of one song, "I Learned That From You", this is a pop-country album. Sara doesn't quite seem to be on the Shania-and-Faith-track but she's taken a bigger step from country music with this album than she did with "No Place That Far". If you're expecting to hear the steel guitar cry then this album will disappoint you in a big way. If, however, you can tolerate your country by a great singer but in a somewhat diluted form then you will like "Born to Fly".

I can't help but wonder what George Jones and the other old timers who helped Sara get started in the business think about where she's gone, can't help but imagine that they think she's sold her country soul for the pop dollar.

I had heard of Sara Evans from her hit "I Could Not Ask for More" so I bought this CD. I have listened to it probably no less than 40 times and am nowhere near tired of it. I love every song on this CD especially You Don't, Saints and Sinners, 4:30, Born to Fly, and of course I Could Not Ask for More. Some reviewers state that they loved the pure country sound of her first album, thought that she diluted it with pop on the second album, then moreso on this one. I could not agree less. I have always been a fan of pure country, but I like this CD even more that almost my entire collection of country music. These are just great songs sung by a great female singer, arranged tastefully with that nice strummed acoustic guitar in there that I love. I could care less what category people want to put it in or how they want to say she should have done some other style. I really can't see how someone could not like this one.

I've really enjoyed listening to Sara's latest CD Born to Fly. I was a little unsure of what this CD would be like. Never bought a country CD from a female artist before but I was really impressed with her video and first single. I took a chance and spent $15 on this CD and it has been worth every penny. She picked great songs to cover and she also co-wrote several songs on the CD (which is uncommon with Nashville artists). She also does a great cover of Bruce Hornsby's Every Little Kiss

and has Bruce play piano on the track. It's more pop than country but it's a great disc! She also covers a song that Edwin McCain did a few years ago that will be a great cross over single, I Could Not Ask for More. Easy listening for any music fan.

I feel very fortunate to have discovered Sara Evans. I'm not really a country music fan. I like the great old singers of country music like Hank Williams, Roy Acuff, George Jones, but--except for Shania Twain--I don't go in for "new country." I guess some people think this album is more pop than country, but all that matters to me is that I love this album. From what I read, Sara Evans also offers a traditional country sound in her earlier albums, so I will definitely be checking those out. I've never really heard this singer before. I saw her on a commercial for Country Music Television, heard just the one line "How do you wait for Heaven?" and was basically hooked. It is very rare for me to really like a song when I first hear it, and it is especially rare for me to like a song when I only hear six words of it. Once I found out the name of this artist, I checked out the clips on Amazon's web site and knew I had to buy this album.

"Born to Fly" is just one of those rare songs that really grabs me for some reason. Having never heard the entire song until I bought the CD, I was happy to see that it was over 5.5 minutes long--unfortunately, the second half of the song is just music (I want to hear singing, not music). That's about the only disappointing thing about this CD, though. There are no bad songs here; in fact, all of them just get better and better the more I listen to them. "Saints and Angels" is a wonderful song which really seems to fit nicely after "Born to Fly." "I Could Not Ask For More" and "Why Should I Care" are incredible and really exemplify the honesty and emotion Sara's voice conveys. The faster-paced "I Keep Looking" and "You Don't" are just as powerful and moving as the slower songs on the album. Any of these six could be my favorite song; they are all that good.

Sara Evans has one of the freshest, clearest, most beautiful voices I have heard in a long time. You don't just put this CD in and go about your business; you almost have to sit down, close your eyes, listen, and experience the magic of this incredible singer.

Most anyone who is a true Sara Evans fan would have the "Born to Fly" album in their collection. I would suggest buying the import album even though it only has one extra song. The song "You" is truly worth it.