Editorial Product Review: :From the time she burst onto the music scene as a teenager with the smash hit 'Blue' to the release of her new studio album 'Family,' she has seen it all while taking it with a grain of salt. Some people will always see her as the little girl with the booming voice. She wants to change all that, and part of that process will start with her latest album 'Family.' For the first time, LeAnn wrote or co-wrote every song on the album. ...
Editorial Product Review: :Not many artists can boast a greatest-hits album by their 21st birthday, but then not everybody logs a Lolita-ish hit at age 13, as the precocious Rimes did with the retro 'Blue' in 1996. In many ways, that auspicious debut was her finest hour, full of hypnotic, yodel-laced magic and savant-like promise. Since then, she's recorded a fair amount of bankable pop ('One Way Ticket,' 'Can't Fight the Moonlight') and a seemingly bottomless well of tripe ('You Light Up My Life,' 'Written in the ...
Editorial Product Review: :This 1997 album debuted at the top of the pop, country, and Christian album charts. Sadly, it underscored the artistic vacuum surrounding Rimes in the wake of her explosive 1996 hit single 'Blue.' At a time when female country singers were being lauded for their growing depth and sophistication, this collection of 'inspirational songs' seemed anachronistic and downright corny. The concept was more appropriate to a TV-marketed album by some faded legend than a singer so young. Even the best singers would have difficulty ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:Sounding remarkably like Patsy Cline, LeAnn Rimes's voice slices into each song like a hot knife through butter. At the age of 13, Rimes became country's brightest new star upon the release of this impressive debut. Her balanced blend of traditional and new country owes as much to Cline as it does 1990s' style. 'Cattle Call,' a duet with the legendary Eddy Arnold, is just one of the many highlights on this album. Attention is focused on Rimes's distinctive booming vocals, as ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Includes bonus track. Col. 2005. :LeAnn Rimes, now 22, can't catch a break. After she belted her way into national consciousness at 13 with the Grammy-winning Blue in 1996, comparisons to Patsy Cline came flying around every corner. She spent the rest of the decade ducking countryphiles' charges that she had sold out (a few miscalculations in the electronic-dance direction are all it takes, apparently), and by the release of 2002's unselfconsciously poppy Twisted Angel, the genre had largely given up on her--her ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Ninth album by the high priestess of American Pop/Country. At 23 years of age and with 37 million album sales under her belt, this is the follow up to her 2005 album, This Woman. Includes the single 'And It Feels Like' plus 'Destructive', 'Strong', 'Satisfied', 'Little More Time', 'Rumor 'Bout A Revolution' and 'Everybody's Someone' (duet with Brian McFadden) . Warner. 2006.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:LeAnn steps into a new Pop dimension with songs produced by such luminaries as Desmond Child (Life Goes On), Peter Amato (of Baha Men fame) and Gregg Pagani (Canada's #LW). Includes the hit single 'Life Goes On'. Curb Records. 2002.
Editorial Product Review: :This is a collection of LeAnn Rimes's favorite country standards, plus one newly written hit, 'Big Deal.' Say what you will about this woman-child--yes, she really needs direction (the 11 remakes couldn't be more obvious choices) and a producer besides her dad. But she's slowly growing into her own style, which here falls somewhere between Patsy Cline, Brenda Lee, and Tammy Wynette. Especially Patsy. Her timing on 'Crazy' is quirky enough to offset the ham-fisted arrangement, and she's not bad on 'I Fall to ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Reissue of her 2001 album and featuring 'Light The Fire Within' as performed in the opening ceremony of the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Winter Games plus 4 bonus tracks 'Can't Fight The Moonlight' (Graham Stack Radio Edit), 'But I Do Love You' (Almighty Radio Edit), 'Soon' (Graham Stack Radio Edit) & 'I Need You' (Graham Stack Radio Edit). 2002.
Intel's Core 2 Duo E6700 offers the best price-to-performance ratio we've seen in a desktop chip. For half the cost of AMD's top-of-the-line chip, you get identical if not superior performance and better power efficiency. AMD surprised us last year with its completely dominant dual-core chips, but Intel regains the crown with Core 2 Duo.
India expects to see rough diamond supplies fall by up to a fourth after the Diamond Trading Co (DTC), the distribution arm of De Beers, cuts down on Indian clients, an industry body said on Wednesday.