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As a mainstay on country radio, Reba's music has become a soundtrack for the human experience. She has put words to our heartache with songs like “You Lie”, “Somebody Should Leave” and “Rumor Has It”; inspired us with “I'm A Survivor” and “How Was I To Know”; and broke our hearts with “The Greatest Man I Never Knew” and “And Still”. And, no one can deliver a love song like the redhead from Oklahoma – “Somebody” and “Forever Love” gave us hope that love really does conquer all.The first new single from Reba #1's , “You're Gonna Be”, speaks of a mother's love for her child through all the ups and downs that life brings. The soaring chorus is a mix of advice, encouragement and inspiration. A second new song, “Love Needs A Holiday”, is an upbeat tale of a married couple who just needs a break from the daily grind. Both songs teem with the passion and talent Reba fans know and love, and listeners will recognize a piece of themselves in the stories they tell.That talent has also brought her a slew of awards and honors, including 15 American Music Awards, 12 Academy of Country Music awards, 7 Country Music Association awards and 2 Grammy's.In a career that has now expanded beyond music, Reba is also a multiple award winner in the acting arena. Her critically acclaimed Broadway debut in 2001's ANNIE GET YOUR GUN was awarded both the Drama Desk and Outer Critics awards. Now in its fifth season, her self-titled TV show, REBA, reigns as the WB's top rated sitcom, and has landed Reba a Golden Globe nomination and a People's Choice Award.Reba's ever-expanding talents have now grown to encompass a clothing line as well. REBA, a woman's clothing collection of business and casual separates, entered the fashion place in the spring of 2005 and is now sold via Dillard's and www.rebawear.com. The line is an extension of Reba's style and taste, and offers a bit of her personality to shoppers.Through her music, television show, clothing collection, and everything else she does, Reba McEntire represents the ideals, dreams and issues that people of all backgrounds care about. She speaks to our everyday lives while showing us what else is out there. Her personality and talent have drawn in millions of fans. It's why she became the first country female artist to sell five million copies of one album since Patsy Cline. It's why she's now sold more than 49 million albums in her career.Reba McEntire has been the leading lady of country music for over 20 years. While her career now stretches far beyond country music, she's never forgotten her roots. She is a role model for those who have come behind her, inspiring them to take chances and refuse to accept limitations on what they can do.“Reba #1's” is a picture of longevity and consistency, of music that inspires and reaches people where they are. It's Reba McEntire at her very best.
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Started mastering today and, as you can imagine, it was a day of listening, listening and more listening. It’s great, we have a handle on it, and I’m happy with the results so far, but we will spend the weekend listening again and tweaking. It’s so much focus and thinking and making decisions about minutiae that most people will never notice … Is the kick drum too loud? Is there too much reverb on the vocal? Do we need a DIFFERENT reverb on the vocal? Do we need NO reverb on the vocal? Are the background vocals loud enough?Such is life these days for Martina McBride the producer, artist and writer. Despite racking up 16 million in sales, 22 top 10 singles—including six number ones with crossover success in multiple genres—numerous CMA and ACM awards and a slew of national television appearances in her illustrious 15-year career, Martina continues to scale new artistic heights. Many performers might hesitate to tinker with such success, but not this one.After self-admittedly “hitting a wall, creatively” upon finishing her eponymous 2003 release, Martina recorded what she calls “a labor of love,” the platinum-selling Timeless. A tribute to the country music she grew up with, the album gave her the space to not think about “what to do next” and just focus on making music simply for the joy of it.“Recording Timeless allowed me to pause and be inspired musically by looking back without pressure to move forward creatively,” Martina says. “I had always wanted to do an album that would pay tribute to the music that shaped who I am as a country music fan. Even though I’m known as a contemporary country artist, I think it has always been obvious that I have a great reverence for our country music heritage. After making Timeless, I came into this album renewed, refreshed and reenergized. I was excited to get going and make new music.”The result is Waking Up Laughing, her ninth studio release. Martina produced the record over an eight-month period—a timetable most artists aren’t afforded, she admits, and the luxury she enjoys most about having her own studio. “I’ve never been one of those people who could make a record in two or three weeks. I don’t know why, but I really have to live with things. I like to think about it, listen to it in the car, just sort of let the ideas come to me rather than trying to get it done quickly.”Wait, the kick drum just isn’t right! Take the percussion loop out of the intro; as a matter of fact, take it out of the whole song! Oh, that note is a little out of tune, let me re-sing it … No, that old vocal performance had more passion, let’s put that back in, but only up to the second verse. Is this good enough? Does it suck? No, everyone says it’s great. Are they lying? They have no reason to lie. Is the kick drum too puffy? I’m not crazy about that snare sound … That’s the best snare sound ever!”Her biggest decision was that of making herself solo producer on her first album of original material in four years. “It was a gut decision, kind of like I make all my other decisions. It just felt like the right time to do it by myself … It wasn’t like I wanted to work with anybody else, and Paul [Worley] (Martina’s longtime co-producer) was around for me to call and ask questions if needed. We’re still really close friends—he brought me several songs and played on some of the tracks.”Since she has always co-produced her albums, the only real differences “were just psychologically having it be all mine as well as having the time and freedom to work at my own pace.”After choosing several songs, Martina headed into the studio with some of the finest studio musicians Nashville has to offer, including drummer Matt Chamberlain; percussionist David Huff; bass player Glenn Worf; Steve Nathan, piano, synth and B-3; guitarists Dan Dugmore (also steel guitar and dobro), Dann Huff, B. James Lowry, Brent Mason, and Bryan Sutton (also mandolin); and several well-known harmony vocalists, including Keith Urban, Brett Warren and Carolyn Dawn Johnson.“I get three or four songs together, then I go in and cut. The songs really dictate the production as well as the band I put together … The hardest part about this album was finding the right songs. After making eight albums, it was a challenge to find something I hadn’t done before, both musically and lyrically.”During the process of producing the album, Martina was encouraged by tour mates The Warren Brothers to try her hand at songwriting. “We were out on tour with Martina, and kept asking her to write with us,” Brett Warren recalls. “She kept saying she wasn’t a writer, but with her ear for a good song, we knew she had it in her. We started with what became the debut single (“Anyway”), and then took her the musical idea we had for “Beautiful Again,” which she really turned into something special.” With those two songs wrapped up, the threesome collaborated with top tunesmiths Chris Lindsey and Aimee Mayo to write the infectious “How I Feel.”“I’d never considered myself a writer, especially when I’ve come to rely on the incredible talent we have here in Nashville, but Brett and Brad made me realize how fun and satisfying songwriting could be,” Martina says.The results speak for themselves. “Anyway” is Martina’s fastest-rising single ever, and the rest of the album is just as strong, thanks to Martina’s undeniable talents as a producer and vocalist. In a New York Times concert review, Kelefah Sanneh writes, “She has a rich, elegant voice and an extraordinary knack for controlling it. She hits the big notes without hammering them; when she slowly bends a note up or down you can feel—see, almost—the gentle curve.”From the opening fiddle-laced rocker “If I Had Your Name,” which Martina calls “one of the most clever kiss-off songs I’ve ever heard,” to the final strains of the gripping “Love Land,” Waking Up Laughing runs the gamut of human emotion.“For These Times,” a Leslie Satcher-penned tune of social consciousness; “Beautiful Again,” with its dark, haunting lyrics of neglect and abuse; and the passionate single “Anyway” all speak to Martina’s willingness to use her music as a platform for her convictions.On the lighter side, the guitar-infused “Cry Cry (’Til the Sun Shines), the Beatlesque “How I Feel” and the hook-laden “Everybody Does” explore the highs and lows of love with humor, honesty and compassion.In “House of a Thousand Dreams” and “Love Land,” Martina takes listeners on life’s journeys as viewed by a struggling middle-class family and by a young woman who travels an unexpected path to find true love despite heartache and tragedy.Rounding out the record are two beautiful ballads, the exquisitely wistful “Tryin’ to Find a Reason” and the reassuring “I’ll Still Be Me,” which offer two tales of love from opposite ends of the spectrum.Waking Up Laughing is an 11-song journey of love, loss, redemption and, ultimately, happiness. Martina took the title of the record from a line in “How I Feel,” which describes some of the things that make her happy. “If you have ever woken yourself up laughing, you know it’s the most incredible feeling. As a title, I thought it fit the music; it’s positive and it’s a great message to send out to the world.”We need to add an accordion! We need to make this mix more “alive”. It’s awesome. It’s awesome, right?One thing is clear. While all this second-guessing might be part of her creative process, Martina can rest assured there is no reason to worry. It IS awesome.The self-produced album marks Martina’s evolution as an artist: from a small-town singer with a big voice to a country music icon who commands not only the stage but every facet of her career.It's late and I'm going to bed. It's all worth it and, underneath it all - and sometimes above it all...I'm having fun.THESE BIOGRAPHIES ARE FROM WWW.MARTINAMCBRIDE.COM, AGAIN I DID NOT WRITE THESES. Martina McBride’s recording sessions at Blackbird Studio during the first half of 2005 had an atmosphere of contagious enthusiasm. For the first time in her career, the multi-Platinum country star was solo producing an album. But not just any album. An album unlike any she has ever recorded. An album celebrating her place in a genre she holds dear while reminiscing and paying homage to the songs where her journey began. This is an entire album dedicated to some of the most prolific country classics tunes of our time.“Every time I hear this music, it feels like coming home,” says Martina. “What I love about these songs is that they are like conversations. These lyrics are so simple, yet so eloquent. It’s just honest. I have a comfort level with this music and a respect for it that is deep.”She’d gathered a group of musicians who shared her vision. They worked out the arrangements together, then recorded the songs live. It was an organic, simple, old-fashioned process because Martina McBride, steel guitarist Paul Franklin, fiddler Stuart Duncan, bass players Glenn Worf and Larry Paxton, keyboard player Gordon Mote, drummer Eddie Bayers and guitarists Steve Gibson, Paul Worley and Marty Schiff were all dedicated to the same goal – paying homage to classic country songs.“It was just a joyful process,” says Martina. “I wanted only to use musicians who had the same kind of desire to do this record as I did. I wanted people who were excited about recreating this music and who would understand how to give it the authenticity I wanted. I wasn’t interested in doing a 2005 version. I wanted to get the feel of the original recording. I was really open to everyone’s input and suggestions because the passion for this project was something we all shared. The band is every bit as important as I am to the sound and feel, and you can hear the joy they take in playing these songs and the love they have for them. And I have to say, the musicianship on this record is some of the finest I’ve ever heard.”More than 30 tunes were recorded. The best of them were culled for Martina McBride’s visionary collection Timeless.From the catalog of the immortal Hank Williams came “You Win Again” and “Take These Chains from My Heart.” Country Music Hall of Fame member Buck Owens provided “Crying Time” and “Love’s Gonna Live Here.” Ray Price, another Hall of Famer, was the originator of “I’ll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)” and “Heartaches by the Number.”Martina also tipped her hat to such Country Music Hall of Fame members as Loretta Lynn (“You Ain’t Woman Enough”), Eddy Arnold (“Make the World Go Away”), Hank Snow (“I Don’t Hurt Anymore”), Don Gibson (“I Can’t Stop Loving You”), The Everly Brothers (“Let It Be Me”), Merle Haggard (“Today I Started Loving You Again”), Tammy Wynette (“Til I Can Make it on My Own”), Waylon Jennings (“Dreaming My Dreams”) and Kris Kristofferson (“Help Me Make it Through the Night”). On “I Still Miss Someone,” Martina paid her respects to one Hall of Famer, Johnny Cash, and enlisted harmony vocals from another, Dolly Parton.Rounding out the Timeless collection are such beloved country standards as “Satin Sheets,” “Rose Garden,” “Walk on By,” “Once a Day,” “True Love Ways” and “Pick Me Up on Your Way Down.” Each one was recorded straight from the heart for this extraordinary album.“With this music,” Martina says, “I felt that the only way to do it was to sing it live with a real ensemble. I wanted it to sound authentic. The studio has an amazing collection of vintage microphones, guitars, amps and gear we were able to use. All the microphones were the same kind of mics they would have used on the original recordings with most of them being from the 1930s and 40s.”Born Martina Schiff, she was raised making music on a farm in tiny Sharon, Kansas. Her dad, Daryl Schiff, had a band that rehearsed every week in the family’s house. When she was 7 and little brother Marty was 5, they joined the group.“There wasn’t much to do growing up on a farm. We had three channels on the TV, one of which was fuzzy. Marty and I would come home from school and we were kind of isolated. There were no neighborhood kids. There was no convenience store. No video games. But we always had musical instruments. Our play time was sitting around making music and singing together.”“We played wedding dances, VFW halls, American Legion posts and things like that. My mom ran the soundboard. I played keyboards and sang. My brother played guitar and steel. My dad led the band, played guitar and sang. I did that every Saturday night until I graduated from high school.”“Satin Sheets” and “Help Me Make it Through the Night” were in her repertoire as a young girl. Daryl Schiff sang “Heartaches by the Number,” “I’ll Be There” and several of the other standards. But it wasn’t only nostalgia that prompted this record. These performances have been smoldering inside Martina McBride since the dawn of her recording career.“I’ve always wanted to make a traditional country album and I’d say that every time I’d start a record. Then I’d gather songs that always kind of led me in another direction. But it has always been in my heart to do a record like this.”“This album came about as a result of a project I was doing for Hallmark (2005’s My Heart). I decided to record ‘Together Again’ for that record. After it was finished, I said, ‘I wish I could do a whole album of this stuff.’ I went to the head of my record company and said, ‘I have a crazy idea that I want to do a whole album of classic country music.’ He said, ‘I think that’s great. Do it.’ And from then on, we were off and running.”“It was her concept, all the way,” says Paul Worley. “She had the image in her head of what it should sound like. Once the magic started happening on the very first song, we all had the sense that we were doing something historic. And something that people were really going to love.”Each day the musicians would gather with Martina in the control room. Song ideas were swapped and after the group listened to an original version of the tune, arrangements were written. Martina suggested instrumentation and selected the key, tempo and sonic textures. Performances were often completed in two or three takes. The ease of the sessions and the love for the songs are audible on every track of Timeless.“Martina had this inspiration,” comments John McBride. “The musicians were really excited about it because they were getting to play a bunch of music that hasn’t been recorded in 30 or 40 years. The art of country music is very apparent on this record. And after seeing her work in the studio, my respect for Martina has doubled. She is very hands-on as a producer. She really knows what she wants and how to get it.”John and Martina married in 1988 and moved to Nashville two years later. The McBrides made a demo, sent it to RCA in a purple envelope with “Requested Material” written on it and landed Martina a coveted audition with the label, which resulted in her recording contract. Their mutual respect for one another and constant companionship make theirs one of the most intriguing relationships in show business. John has been mixing the sound at her concerts from the start as well as working on Martina and engineering Timeless.Similarly, Marty Schiff has been a guitarist in his sister’s band since she began her career. But Timeless is the first of her albums where he is also in her recording group. “It was special to get to share this with my brother. We grew up making music together and we have the same memories built around these songs.”Martina McBride has been a steady presence in the country top-10 since 1993. Her fiery, passionate vocals have created such memorable hits as “Independence Day,” “Wild Angels,” “A Broken Wing,” “Blessed” and “This One’s for the Girls.” She has placed nearly 20 singles in the top-10, has sold 15 million records and has been named CMA’s Female Vocalist of the Year in 1999, 2002, 2003 and 2004.“I wasn’t thinking of the ‘business’ of country music when I made this album,” she says. “I made Timeless for the love of the music and for the experience of singing these songs. Obviously, I hope people like it. But for me the bottom line was just trying to pay tribute to these songs and give them the respect they deserve.”“This record really is not about me. It’s about this music,” she adds. “I want everybody who hears it to go, ‘Wow, what great songs.’ I think there will be a lot of people who have fond memories of these songs and also many people who will be hearing them for the first time. It’s exciting to think that it may inspire someone to go back and listen to the originals and discover how wonderful traditional country music is.”