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Where Your Road Leads (Dts)

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This album came off the heels of her successful SONGBOOK compilation from 1997. The first single "There Goes My Baby" was a big hit for Yearwood. She was on the top of her game at this point. Winning accolades from Nashville. Too bad it sort of ended here. This was her last truly successful album. She worked with Tony Brown as a producer on this one, giving it a more crisp, smooth production than past albums. The music leans a lot more to crossover than her previous albums have. Ballads once again are her strength, as evidenced on "Never Let You Go Again", "Love Wouldn't Lie To Me", and others. "Heart Like A Sad Song" is just that, a very sad song. "I Don't Wanna Be The One" is a nice emotional ballad. The title track is another duet with Garth Brooks, not quite as good as "In Another's Eyes", but still good. She manages a good cover of the Stones "Bring Me All Your Lovin". "I'll Still Love You More" was another hit from the album, a nice Diane Warren ballad. Another highlight is the uptempo song "Wouldn't Any Woman". Overall a strong album start to finish.

How to fit it all in 1,000 words is going to be tough!!! Being the avid Trisha fan as I am, or rather FANatic, could you expect anything LESS than 5 stars from me? Onto Trisha

This could be her best album to date, no lie. The emotion in this album, along with jaw-dropping vocal performances leaves you in utter and complete awe. Each song in itself a masterpiece and each song in itself stands on it own. No surprise considering she's the best voice in "today's country music", and she has such talent finding songs with lyrics that SAY SOMETHING. That have a purpose.

With most albums there are one or two songs that you dislike, or that you simply like. Every song on the album is something that reaches to your very core and you love through and through.

Beautiful ballads such as "Never Let You Go Again" just makes you sigh, or "Love Wouldn't Lie To Me" that just breaks your heart. One of *my* favorites on the album, another ballad ! is "Heart Like A Sad Song" which could get the hardest-hearted person crying.

What I find most amazing on the album, is how although each song is diverse as it is, each album is so full of emotion. Nothing is half-..well yknow the rest.

For all of you wondering, yes there is a Diane Warren ballad on the album: "I'll Still Love You More" which seems to be a favorite among most of the people I know. With Diane Warren penning the song, I don't think you can go wrong anyhow.

Now what about those more blusy, rocking tunes?? well for that she's got "Powerful Thing", "That Ain't the Way I Heard It," "Wouldn't Any Woman," and "Bring Me All Your Loving." "Wouldn't Any Woman" is among my favorites, because of the lines: "I've loved you to the limits of my self-respect/Now I'm leaving with what's left/Wouldn't any woman."

Now, I know most of you are wondering about "Where Your Road Leads"! the title cut, which also happens to be a FANTABULOUS duet! with Garth Brooks. It is written by Victoria Shaw and Desmond Child, Victoria co-wrote "The River."

What else? Well there's a Carole King/Paul Brady tune called "I Don't Wanna Be The One" with one of the most outstanding vocal performances I'VE EVER HEARD.

If you don't get this album, you're nuts. Pure and simple. Sorry but it's true. It's an album that just grabs you and won't let go. The emotion in her voice, and the depth of her music can only be described as magic. The best album of the year. Period.

"It's a powerful thing, more than three words and a diamond ring, it can open up the heavens, make the angels sing. Our love baby is a powerful thing." WHERE YOUR ROAD LEADS is a powerful CD featuring the hits "There Goes My Baby" and "I'll Still Love You More." "Love Wouldn't Lie To Me" is a beautiful but melancholy tune and "Wouldn't Any Woman," "Heart Like A Sad Song," and "I Don't Want to Be The One" are terrific cuts. The CD also features a duet with Garth Brooks, the title song, "Where Your Heart Leads." Lyrics are included on the inserts.

Of all the contemporary country singers to emerge in the nineties, Trisha was (and remains) my favorite although not by much. This album is typical, containing many great songs from some of the finest songwriters around (Annie Roboff, Jamie O'Hara, Al Anderson, Don Schlitz, Mark D Sanders, Dianne Warren, Carole King, Allison Moorer, Victoria Shaw and J D Souther among them), yet requiring several plays to really be appreciated. Many of the songs are ballads but there are some faster songs to provide variation. Trisha is always careful to select songs that mean something to her. I sense from the lyrics that her personal life was difficult at the time she recorded these songs.

The album opens with There goes my baby, a reflective ballad about a former lover. Maybe the second track, Never let you go again, is a sequel as it is about getting a second chance. Net comes a song about cheating, That ain't the way I heard it. Powerful thing (an up-tempo song about love) was a country top ten hit. After this comes a superb ballsd, Love wouldn't lie to me, but it did. As if to prove that love lies the next song, Wouldn't any woman, is about the end of a relationship. In contrast, I'll still love you more finds Trisha deeply in love. Heart like a sad song is about a woman (not Trisha) who cannot find lasting love whatever she tries. I don't want to be the one is about a relationship that is in difficulties. Bring me all your loving (the Allison Moorer song) is about missing somebody and wanting his love, not flowers. Allison's own version eventually appeared on one of her albums (The hardest part) two years after this album was released. The album closes with the title track, which is an excellent duet with Garth Brooks.

This is not as strong overall as some of Trisha's early albums but it is an album of very high quality that no Trisha fan should be without.

I really got into Trisha Yearwood because she sings without trying to impress you by the power of her lungs. She sings with simplicity, and that just let the words speak for themselves. Trisha is showing up more on "There goes my baby " than on the other songs I heard from her and this is why I like that song less. It remains a catchy number.

"Never let you go again" in the contrary, is a sensitive song performed with contained emotion.. It is a jewel of this album. I also love "That ain't the way I heard it", expressing how hurt you are when you discover you've been betrayed but without aggressiveness.

I am not really a country fan (no that I hate it, I just not know much about it), so "Powerful thing" typical fiddles make me rather smile. Despite that very typical country orchestration and interpretation, the song is not a turn off. After listening to it several times I even caught myself singing along.

"Love wouldn't lie to me" is another ballad, and how do I like Trisha's ballads! Once again this is a melancholic reflection on feeling betrayed by your own feelings. This is another favorite of mine.

The next track "Wouldn't any woman" has a great 'let's drive away' feeling and really get me going. The chorus is very catchy. It makes me think about "American girl" from "Thinkin' of You", but the lyrics are more bitter and less genuine.

"I'll still love you more" is a little too "Céline Dionesque" / "Lyann Rhymesque" for my taste, but I never skipped the track since I have the CD. Probably because Trisha's voice has a natural class.

I love the piano intro on "Heart like a sad song". I also like the way Trisha sometimes murmurs and sometimes rise her voice on some sentences. It sounds like a lullaby. This is another portrait of a woman left to her own devices after her husband has gone.

In "I don't want to be the one" she expresses the despair of a woman who sees her couple going to pieces and refuse to accept it. I have no idea about her private life, but rupture is one of the main themes on the album, and I guess there must be a connection. You feel she is not just singing words here, she is speaking her own truth.

By the way, I am always surprised to find the lyrics rather good on Trisha Yearwood album.

"Bring me all your lovin" is there to show JLO that you can tell a man his love and presence more than material gifts matters to you, in an intelligent and well-written way. Unfortunately, JLO does not listen to country musicians.

The duet with Garth Brooks and title track is elegant and their voices match perfectly. A kind of "top of the cherry" to close the album.

Where Your Road Leads is one of Trisha's strongest albums. The music is a cross between country, pop and adult contemporary. From the first single, the beautiful ballad There Goes My Baby, to the upbeat Powerful Thing, there's something that will appeal for everyone on here. However, the songs that weren't released as singles are the real gems in my opinion on the album. Heart Like A Sad Song has to be one of the best ballads Trisha has ever recorded, never have I heard such a sad story conveyed and sung with so much emotion from any performer. Love Wouldn't Lie to Me and Never Let You Go Again are beautiful ballads as well. There is also the title track, which is another duet with Garth Brooks. This is one of Trisha's strongest albums, you will love it.

Man, Trisha can really pick out the songs. She has the voice and the brains to create another album that will surely stand the test of time. The album is considerably more pop orientated than any of her previous albums.

So many great memorable songs on this one including: There Goes My Baby, Wouldn't Any Woman, I Don't Want To Be The One and Where Your Road Leads. These songs are my favorites but don't forget all the radio hits: I'll Still Love YOu More, Powerful Thing and Never Let You Go Again.

Yes, this is a great album - Not her best but better than her debut album. And that album is great too! You won't go wrong with anything by this diva.

On "Where Your Road Leads" Trisha continued her dominance of the country world and country charts, and it's a no brainer why this album somewhat underrated, cranked out 4 more top 10 hits for Trisha. "There Goes My Baby", was an instant hit, to go along with a very haunting video and powerful lyrics, then comes the Garth Brooks duet "Where Your Road Leads", the song is just so incredibly amazing it's simple to see why they have done so many duets with each other in the past. "Powerful Things" was also a big hit I'll be it a suprise hit, so energic and this also sticks in your head for a while. But the song that takes the cake and makes this album worthy is probably my favorite Trisha song, "I'll Still Love You More", this song just simply melts your heart and Trisha's voice has never sevred a song better and the video is so unlike Trisha, if there is a Trisha album to own this is it, she just continued to roll right along with this album, further putting her even more ahead of the competition. Once again Trisha shines through.

I love this cd! The opening track, "There Goes My Baby" is an amazing vocal performance from Trisha, but what makes this album great is tracks like the divine "Never Let You Go Again" and "Heart Like A Sad Song" where Trisha tells the stories of these songs softly and gently, wrapping her voice and her soul around the notes. There are several truly great moments on this cd like "Bring Me All Your Lovin'" and "Where Your Road Leads" that make this Trisha's best studio album to date.

This is a very mellow CD by one of my favorite artists. While the songs lack the depth of some of her previous releases (especially the much-mentioned "Hearts in Armor"), it is none-the-less a must-have for any ardent fan.