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Victoria Shaw | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 8, 1995)
• Original Release Date: 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002MQF
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #146,245 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lucky Me Lucky You

2. Love On Down The Line

3. Forgiveness

4. Good As Gone

5. You Don't Know Love

6. Bring My Baby Home

7. Cry Wolf

8. (A Day In The Life Of A) Single Mother

9. Tears Dry

10. Where Your Road Leads

11. Small Talk

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant songwriter and great singer, July 18, 2003

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In Full View (Audio CD)

Victoria began her recording career with this 1995 album, on which she co-wrote every song. I hoped it would mark the start of a hugely successful career as a country singer, but it was not to be. Since then, Victoria had one more album for Warner brothers and another on her own label. However, she has been extremely successful as a songwriter, writing or co-writing songs that have been successful for several major stars. Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood eventually recorded one such song, Where your road leads, as a duet. Victoria's original can be found on this album.

Victoria's comparative failure as a singer is a mystery to me, because she has a lovely voice, well suited to the songs she sings. Apart from Where your road leads, there are several brilliant songs here, my favorite being A day in the life of a single mother, which takes the optimistic view of the subject. Indeed, the overall feel of the album is bright and cheery.

Jim Ed Norman produced the album, which was generally typical of mid nineties pop country. However, Victoria's great songs and lovely voice ensure that this is well above average quality.

3.0 out of 5 stars Victoria Shaw - In Full View (1995), June 19, 2011

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CW (Phoenix, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: In Full View (Audio CD)

over-all 3 star... just good pop/country from the 90's

If you like Victoria you'll like Trisha Yearwood and vice versa...

Good as Gone -- a good 80s retro-pop-country

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's OK....but not the best I've heard, October 29, 2005

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J. D. Hopkinson (Ashington, Northumberland United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In Full View (Audio CD)

I'm a great fan of Brent Mason and have been trying to get every album he has recorded on, as he usually makes a huge difference in the end product. I have to say that I was disappointed when I listened to this CD. I think the problem lies in the use of the tremendous talent i.e too many great players on the credits . Most albums nowadays are recorded with loads of top quality studio players, but you do find that a couple of them are present all the way through the tracks - not the case on this CD, and that alone is enough to lose a lot of 'feel' for the songs. One plus point is the truly excellent 'Cry Wolf', which has passion and feel in abundance, but the strange use of the tremendous musicians playing on this CD leaves you feeling a little cold. It's like there are 3 truly excellent bands backing Victoria, but each of them have been chosen to play on the wrong tracks, or worse, have only been used because of who they are (Brent Mason being the prime example). It's OK, but when you compare it to the efforts of Jann Browne, Lari White & many others in the similar styling, it falls way, way, way too short for my liking.