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Keep On Loving You (2009)

Where the lyrics of Keep On Loving You take you, and where it was really made.

The lead single "Strange" became Reba McEntire's highest-debuting single, yet the album sold fewer copies in its first week than her previous Reba: Duets.

Key places

Recorded in Nashville (2009)

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Album story

Overview

• Keep On Loving You: 27th studio album by American country singer Reba McEntire
• Released August 18, 2009 on Starstruck/Valory; Humphead Records in the UK
• Produced by Tony Brown, Mark Bright, and McEntire
• Thirteen tracks in total
• McEntire's first solo studio album in six years, since 2003's Room to Breathe
• Her first album for the Valory label, in conjunction with her company Starstruck Entertainment

Background

• In 2008 she left MCA Nashville, her label of twenty-five years, after the release of Reba: Duets (2007)
• Many songs had earlier been recorded by other country artists
• Despite the label change, McEntire stayed with Universal Music Group, which controls her catalog including her Mercury Nashville years
• Valory's parent label, Big Machine Records, is distributed by Universal

Recording

• Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee in early 2009

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

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Artist

Early life

• Born March 28, 1955 in McAlester, Oklahoma; raised on a ranch in Chockie, Oklahoma.
• Third of four children of Clark and Jacqueline McEntire; her father was a three-time world steer roping champion.
• With her siblings she formed the trio the Singing McEntires, performing at local events and dance halls.
• Studied elementary education and music at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

Career

• Country singer Red Steagall heard her at a 1974 rodeo and helped her sign with PolyGram/Mercury Records in 1975.
• Her breakout came with the 1984 MCA album My Kind of Country, which produced two number-one country singles.
• The album Whoever's in New England won a Grammy Award and topped the Billboard country albums chart.
• After a 1991 plane crash that killed eight band members, she released For My Broken Heart, her best-selling album.
• Sold more than 75 million records worldwide; 24 of her singles reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
• Starred in the sitcom Reba (six seasons) and in the NBC sitcom Happy's Place.

Members

• Solo artist; her siblings Pake and Susie were early members of the Singing McEntires.

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Reception

At release

• Thom Jurek of AllMusic praised the production, which he said was anything but indie despite the indie release
• Jurek gave the album three out of five stars
• Jurek called the title track a midtempo ballad saturated in compressed guitars and Hammond B-3
• Jurek found the album radio-friendly and said McEntire's voice had not lost its range and power
• Bobby Peacock of Roughstock gave a generally positive review
• Peacock said songs such as Consider Me Gone recalled McEntire's early-1990s work
• Peacock criticized some lyrics and the sometimes-sterile production
• Whitney Pastorek of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B− rating
• Pastorek wrote that few of the tunes challenge her voice

Records

• Debuted at number 1 on Billboard Top Country Albums and Billboard 200
• Second McEntire album to debut at number 1 on both charts
• 96,000 copies sold in the first week, below the 300,000 of Reba: Duets
• With this release, McEntire held the record for the female country artist with the most Billboard number-one albums, previously held by Loretta Lynn
• Certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America
• Lead single Strange debuted at number 39 on Hot Country Songs and peaked at number 11
• Peaked at number 16 on ARIA, number 5 on the UK Country Album Charts, and number 98 on the Japan Oricon Top 100

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The title track was later recorded by co-writer Ronnie Dunn in 2012 on the Cracker Barrel edition of his self-titled debut album.
• Many songs had earlier been recorded by other artists, such as I Want a Cowboy by Katrina Elam.
• Consider Me Gone was sent to radio on the day the album was officially released.
• The song Consider Me Gone went on to become the biggest hit of McEntire's career, topping the charts for four weeks.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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