- Audio CD (27 Sep 1999)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Mca
- ASIN: B000025AVE
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 98,178 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Reba is the Oprah of country music. Both have built their careers into empires by embodying the concerns, hopes, and desires of the average (whoever she is) American woman. So Good Together ranks with the country veteran's most consistently satisfying releases, confirming that she remains very much in touch with her core audience. Whether she's addressing the bittersweet end of a marriage ("Back Before the War"), commiserating over hot-button parental dilemmas ("What Do You Say"), or wondering how a relationship that seems so right can feel so wrong ("I'm Not Your Girl"), her down-home phrasing has the transparent intimacy of a heart-to-heart chat. She continues to stretch herself artistically as well, teaming with the popular Brazilian duo of Jose y Durval for a bilingual finale of Boz Scaggs's "We're All Alone". --Don McLeese
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Quality time and again,
By A Customer
This review is from: So Good Together (Audio CD)
I've been a Reba fan for 13 years now, not easy when you're in the UK and her stuff is as rare as hen's teeth. The last few years have been much better, and I've amassed a collection of 25 albums. So where does this new release fall? Well, it's no 'For My Broken Heart', but it's pretty good regardless. Reba has one of those expressive voices that would sound insightful and moving on a rendition of 'Old MacDonald Had A farm'. Thankfully the songs here are a little more mature than that. She's also (for better or worse - you decide) almost completely disregarded her country origins. Gone are the 'lordy lordy' declarations of 'I don't need nothin' you ain't got' (grammar? syntax?). In fact, but for the inclusion of Roses, old fashioned country at its steel-guitar drenched best, this could be a Celine Dion album, although without the excessive histrionics. The best tracks here are current single 'What Do You Say', which is so strong you can forgive its crocodile tears and mawkishly sentimental ending and the stunning 'I'm Not Your Girl'. Here Reba demonstrates the lesser-known skill of restraint. The lyrics are touching, the tune catchy and the delivery absolutely perfect. 'She wasn't Good Enough For Him' is a quintessential '90s Reba, and 'Nobody Dies From A Broken Heart' could be the sequel to 'Everything That You Want' from the Read My Mind album. On the downside, the title track can't seem to decide on a rhythm or a tune and so it throws itself all over the place and gets nowhere. Furthermore, some of the songs here seem to be reiterating sentiments we've heard before. But hey, with a voice like that, recordings of such consistent quality after 23 years in the business can only testify to Reba's supremacy in modern country music. My only real grumble is that she's branching out into other markets and keeps changing the track line-up, meaning I have to spend a fortune buying imports for the sake of single songs dotted here and there. So although we got this album 8 weeks ago in the UK, the US release contains another track, which I'm dying to hear. Oh well, maybe I'll just go listen to The Secret Of Giving instead...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
UNBELIEVABLE,
By Rebecca Cobby (Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: So Good Together (Audio CD)
I can't believe how woderful this album is. It touches me so deeply. Reba's voice really draws out the emotions in the song. A good song is fine on its own but Reba just makes it extra special - she is magic!!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
PROFESSIONAL FROM START TO FINISH,
By A Customer
This review is from: So Good Together (Audio CD)
This CD was my first introduction to Reba, very much a CD bought on instinct. I found it an exciting album to listen to from the "upbeat" "So good together" to the slower "Back before the war". I was afraid that the album would be full of the twangy guitar sounds, so much associated with country, but I am very very plesantly surprised, and would like maybe to see her in concert sometime.
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