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Tell Me Why

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Wynonna's Tell Me Why album is a great follow up to her first solo album (Wynonna). The songs are a great mix of country and pop, with a bit of jazz and blues thrown in. If you listen carefully, you can hear Naomi's harmony on "Girls with Guitars."

Though several of the songs, such as "Tell Me Why" and "Only Love," are more of the traditional Judd-style sound, Wy expands her musical style with more hard-hitting numbers like "Rock Bottom" and "That was Yesterday." The album also has a taste of religious themes (Let's Make a Baby King and Father Sun).

If you enjoyed any of the Judds music or Wy's first album, you'll like this album too. I recommend it!

This Wynonna cd is superb. It can take you through a range of emotions from beginning to end. It starts with a very upbeat "Tell Me Why" and ends with a very slow and bluesy "That Was Yesterday". In between, you get the relaxing and romantic "Only Love" (my favorite) and the reminiscent "I Just Drove By" to make you think back to days gone by. There's also the heart wrenching "Is It Over Yet", which Wynonna pours her heart into and "Girls With Guitars" which is kind of like a girls rule anthem type song. Overall, it's a great cd and Wynonna's vocals are flawless. I highly recommend this cd to anyone and everyone.

Though her second CD as a solo artist has a more varied selection of song(they arent all "country") it is nonetheless a superb album.
Tell Me Why,Only Love,Is It Over Yet,Rock Bottom, and Girls With Guitars were the singles released and went to number 2,1,4,2,7 respectively.

My favorites besides the singles would have to be I Just Drove by, Father Sun, and That was Yesterday.
And as with her first solo album, Naomi provides her extraordinary talent on Girls with Guitars by singing(along with Vince Gill) and by writing That was Yesterday.

I just drove by would have to be my favorite all time songs by Wynonna(solo). You would really have to know Wynonna's whole history, her rags-to-riches story, to really be able to understand this song. It really is beautiful.

As with her first album, I highly recommend anyone who is a fan of music to pick this up!

First of all, just read this part of my review for "Wynonna"...

"I truly love this album and consider it a true classic. This is one of those albums that I can listen to (and love/enjoy) all the way thru. Put on any track at any time. Put it in the shuffle. Play it as is. It's great either way! I just have to tell EVERYONE here that they have to own this album, especially if they like Country and/or any other Wynonna/Judd albums. A "classic" that is great all around, in every song. Ya gotta get it! Period!"

Yeah, that's right, "Tell Me Why" is pretty close to being that good too! In turn, yes again, ya gotta get this one as well right now. Get to it fellas...lol!

I admit: it took me awhile to "get into" this CD. After being exposed to the Judds in the early eighties, just as Rock and Roll was gasping its last breath, hearing the Judds for the first time affected me as deeply as hearing "Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay" or "Gimme Shelter" for the first time. Wynonna's "take no prisoners" vocals, Naomi's harmonies, and Don Potter's guitar and direction filled a void in my life that had existed since, horrified, I first heard "Miss You." It broke my heart that "The" Judds, as a unit, broke up after the 1991 tour due to Naomi's illness; but, I eagerly anticipated Wynonnas's solo material. Well...in truth, the experience was EXACTLY like the massive decompression of Ian Hunter's just-TOO-meditative "All American Alien Boy," after his still-astounding first album. I've warmed up to "Wynonna" since (as I have "AAAB," but mainly for Jaco's participation) for the three transcendant tracks, "What It Takes," "No On Else On Earth," and "Live With Jesus." So (OK, selfishly), I was hoping that Wynonna would "focus" a bit for "Tell Me Why." I was - again - disappointed: Wynonna seemed to be aiming for the "MOR" or the (shudder) "lite adult contemporary" crowd. Which was - and is - really, her choice, her right. I didn't care for the hits "Tell Me Why" or (shuddering even harder) "Only Love;" Wynonna was "maturing," she was a Mom by now, and I guess it was inevitible. BUT! "The opera ain't over yet!" There were two - again, transcendant! - tracks, "Girls With Guitars," a flat out rocker written by a lady with whom I wouldn't want to tangle, Mary Chapin Carpenter. Hilatrious! It tells the story of a girl who "progresses" so well that, by the third verse, "she blew away the jerk" who'd "been checkin' out her legs, sayin' 'this'll never work'." I won't give the secret away, what guitarists Don Potter and Steuart Smith do...But the next track, "Just Like New" - WHEW! Don't tell me "white folks can't sing da bluz!" This is a great, almost cynical, Jesse Winchester composition about Elvis' fascination with cars. And when you put an ELECTRIC guitar in Don Potter's hands: yeah, I'll say it, WATCH OUT, KEITH RICHARDS! Like everything else in music, 80% is imminently forgettable (100% after Tina Turner's second album). Ah, but that 20%...! Like a metaphor coined by P. J. O'Rourke, "it's like forgiveness is to sin!"

To be honest, growing up in the 80s and coming from a home where country was on every radio, I wasn't terribly familiar with The Judds. While in college in the early 90s, I heard that Wynonna went solo, and "No One Else On Earth" made me take an interest in her music. I bought the first CD and enjoyed it - as it still had a tinge of country mixed with a sound that made it her own, unique style.

When "Tell Me Why" hit the scene, I picked it up - but wasn't sure what to expect. After listening to every track on the CD, I was absolutely blown away. Wynonna's work with producer Tony Brown produced what I consider to be her two best albums - "Wynonna" and "Tell Me Why." Later albums, such as "revelations" and "Other Side" never had the same spark as her first two endeavors at MCA, although they produced singles that did well on radio.

Each song on "Tell Me Why" brings something special to the mix, as each has its own unique characteristics. From the upbeat cover single to the smooth melodies of "Only Love", the CD makes a statement that helped redefine country music in the early 1990s. Sheryl Crow's "Father Sun", Kimmie Rhodes' "Just Like New" and Jesse Winchester's "Let's Make a Baby King" are also standouts on a sophomore effort that will stand the test of time.

you cant beat the passion and pureness in a classic country/pop voice the cd was great fun & well worth buying

Wynonna pulled it off again, a number 1 cd. She only gets
better. As she ages and matures her voice only matures and becomes more beautiful. Fives stars for Wyonna the Great.

This is Wynonna's 2nd CD and it is just as powerful as her first. "Tell Me Why" was the first single and a top 10 single. It is a fast song and will keep you moving your feet and wanting to dance to it. "Rock Bottom" was another top 10 song for Wynonna and has a rock-a-billy sound to it. "Only Love" my favorite song on the CD is about how love can conquer all. "Girls With Guitars" is a different kind of song that has a guitar lyric in it that sounds like a song by Cream called Sunshine Of Your Love. Mary Chapin Carpenter wrote the song. "Is It Over Yet" is a sad song about a love gone bad and she needs it to be done with so she can move on with her life. There are 2 religious songs on this CD. One is called "Father Sun" and the other is "Let's Make A Baby King" which could be a Christmas Song. This CD is a very powerful one and would be an asset to anyone's collection.

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