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Reba (1988)

Where the lyrics of Reba take you, and where it was really made.

Reba McEntire's fourteenth album traded honky tonk steel guitars for an orchestrated sound that looked back to the hit parades of the 1940s and 1950s.

Key places

Recorded at Sound Stage Studios in Nashville (1988)

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Album story

Overview

• Reba: the fourteenth studio album by American country singer Reba McEntire
• Released April 25, 1988; McEntire worked again with producer Jimmy Bowen, a former rockabilly artist
• Dropped the honky tonk steel guitars and fiddles of the earlier albums My Kind of Country and Have I Got a Deal for You
• A highly produced and orchestrated sound replaced the earlier style
• One of McEntire's first albums with a conceptual feel

Background

• The sound recalls the hit parade of the late 1940s and early 1950s
• Nashville and 1960s country-soul crossover sounds are also represented
• Created before For My Broken Heart and It's Your Call
• The concept came from song choice and similar instrumentation and vocal arrangement across the album

Recording

• Recorded at Sound Stage Studios and Emerald Sound Studios in Nashville, Tennessee
• Jimmy Bowen and Reba McEntire are credited as producers
• Ron Treat is the recording engineer, John Guess handled mixing, and Glenn Meadows handled mastering
• Mixing and mastering took place at Masterfonics in Nashville
• Dann Huff played electric guitars, Russ Kunkel drums, and John Barlow Jarvis acoustic piano and Yamaha DX7
• Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson played harmonica

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Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

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.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Debuted at number 20 on the Country Albums chart in the week of May 21, 1988
• Released April 25, 1988, and presented as a conceptual album built on a unified sound

Records

• Peaked at number 1 on the Country Albums chart in the week of June 11, 1988
• Stayed at number 1 for six consecutive weeks
• Its third number-one country album
• "I Know How He Feels" and "New Fool at an Old Game" each reached No. 1 on the Billboard country singles charts
• "Sunday Kind of Love" reached number 5
• Counted as a commercial success on the strength of its chart run

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• "Sunday Kind of Love" is a remake of an old jazz vocal standard made famous by Ella Fitzgerald, and it reached number 5
• "Respect," a song made famous by Aretha Franklin, is also covered on the album
• Three songs, "Do Right By Me," "Wish I Were Only Lonely" and "New Fool At An Old Game," were previously recorded by Michelle Wright on her 1988 album Do Right By Me
• The track listing includes "So, So, So Long," "Silly Me" and "Everytime You Touch Her"
• The track listing credits Otis Redding as the writer of "Respect"

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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