After All

Joni Harms | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 30, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Real West Production
• ASIN: B00005QKGF
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #274,705 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Weakness For Cowboys

2. More Than Your Eyes Can See

3. Every Cowgirl's Dream

4. After All

5. Keep On Dreamin'

6. West Texas Waltz

7. Ay Yi Yi Yi

8. Millie

9. A Cowboy Wedding

10. It'll Happen When It's Time

11. Cowboy Coffee

12. Sunday Go To Meeting Clothes

13. I Want To Sing For You

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

After two modestly successful singles in the late 1980s and a barely noticed 1990 album for Capitol, Joni Harms has consciously ignored nearly everything that's happened musically during the past decade, including the successes of Twain and Hill. On After All, her first album since 1998's Cowgirl Dreams, Harm's taut, springy twang combined with honest, unadorned Western music makes for an irresistible package. She sings optimistically amid mariachi horns on "Ay, Yi, Yi, Yi" and swings deftly through "Every Cowgirl's Dream," "Weakness for Cowboys," "Cowboy Coffee," and "A Cowboy Wedding." On the title track she commandeers the shuffle, often used to propel morose laments, to frame an unabashed declaration of love and devotion. "Millie," her tribute to waitresses, possesses a reverence that rarely infuses most waitress tunes sung by men. While "I Want to Sing for You" overdoses on earnestness, that's a mere anomaly. Reveling in "the sound of twin fiddles" and "three-quarter time" in "West Texas Waltz" and the homeland virtues of "Sunday Go to Meeting Clothes," Harms reflects a contentment that transcends Music Row's Survivor-like competitions for fame and staying power. --Rich Kienzle

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Western Music, March 17, 2002

By	J. Franklin (Athol, Id United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: After All (Audio CD)

This CD is for real western music lovers. A sound that is reminiscent of Patsy Montana, or a female Marty Robbins.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A real cowgirl sings from experience, August 3, 2002

By	Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: After All (Audio CD)

Joni could have been a great mainstream country singer, if traditional country music were commercially viable for major labels. On this album, Joni sings honest country songs, with traditional acoustic backing. Joni wrote all the songs, sometimes jointly with others, which have been inspired by Joni's life on a ranch, and of that type of lifestyle in general.

Songs like Every cowgirls' dream, Weakness for cowboys, Cowboy wedding and Cowboy coffee give a revealing insight into cowboy culture which can only have been written by somebody who has lived through it all.

Joni proves her ability to sing more general country songs on West Texas waltz (very different from the Joe Ely song of the same title), Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes, More than your eyes can see, Keep on dreamin' and It'll happen when it's time (a song which asks about the weather for farmers).

The song Millie is inspired by a waitress that Joni remembers from her Nashville days, who always provided great service and always made customers feel welcome.

I want to sing for you is a tribute to her fans, who are surely increasing in number all the time.

Joni is in fine voice throughout on this very upbeat album. For those seeking traditional country music, it doesn't come any better than this, with or without the cowboy songs.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply put, great music!!!, July 19, 2006

By	Horse Lover (Valley Center, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: After All (Audio CD)

I had never heard of Joni Harms until a friend turned me onto her. I bought this CD and love every song on it. Her beautiful voice enhances the strength of her lyrics. She is a strong woman who is not afraid to show her vulnerability in songs like "I've Got A Weakness for Cowboys". So much of what she sings I can relate to...being her own woman, and not being afraid to live and to love.