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The Time Has Come [Martina McBride]

Martina McBride
1 disc

1. Time Has Come, The
2. That's Me
3. Cheap Whiskey
4. True Blue Fool
5. Losing You Feels Good
6. Walk That Line
7. I Can't Sleep
8. Woman Knows, A
9. When You Are Old
10. Rope, The - (CD only, bonus track)
Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 44952
Credits

Producer Paul Worley; Ed Seay
Engineer
Rest assured, it's highly unlikely that Martina McBride will ever issue another record that sounds like The Time Has Come. With co-producers Paul Worley and Ed Seay (who also worked with her on her breakthrough, The Way That I Am), McBride delivers a set of neo-traditionalist country and progressive country-inflected folk songs that showcase her ability to get to the heart of a song and turn it into something communicative and thought provoking. With a host of Nashville superpickers and backing vocalists from Garth Brooks and Carl Jackson to Kathy Chiavola, McBride turns in intense performances of the Emory Gordy/Jim Rushing classic "Cheap Whiskey" for a neo-honky tonk feel, as well as the stompin' nightclub country of the Longacre/Wilson-penned title track and the Lonnie Wilson/Charlotte Wilson/Herbert Wilson weeper "Losing You Feels Good." The album ends with Gretchen Peters' "When You're Old," a meditative love song delivered with the empathy, grace, and elegance that have become McBride's trademark. This is a very solid debut, even if it resembles none of her other work. ~ Thom Jurek
Critic Reviews

Entertainment Weekly (7/10/92, p.61) - "...McBride's supple soprano resonates with emotional experience..." - Rating: B