[.ca] Where Your Road Leads

From Amazon.com:
Trisha Yearwood, like her better half in the Mavericks, is becoming more and more country-pop (and less pop-country) with each release. Her latest leads her further down the road into 1970s Linda Rondstadt territory than ever before. It's a land where great pipes and stellar playing are frequently put to the service of treacly ballads and anemic rockers but also a destination guaranteed to provide at least a couple of stunning moments. "There Goes My Baby," about a woman who didn't know how good she had it, is twangy, unpretentious pop, rock-solid and catchy as all get out, and the steel-guitar-driven, Cali country-rock of "Bring Me All Your Lovin'" is as sonically stunning a moment as Nashville's produced in years. --David Cantwell

Travelling Down The Right Road:
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.

Smooth and Classy!!!:
"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.

Nice album:
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.

I feel the pain:
This got me throughmy bad times when Ileft my boyfriendlike a jerk I was.I feel the pain and it helped me and it will helpyou.

A beautiful voice growing up on me and one of her best:
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.

• There Goes My Baby
• Never Let You Go Again
• That Ain't the Way I Heard It
• Powerful Thing
• Love Wouldn't Lie to Me
• Wouldn't Any Woman
• I'll Still Love You More
• Heart Like a Sad Song
• I Don't Want to Be the One
• Bring Me All Your Lovin'
• Where Your Road Leads - Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood