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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | Martina McBride is something of a marvel. Throughout her career she has managed to walk a tightrope between Nash-Vegas commercial concerns and the high art of well-crafted songwriting and serious singing that makes up modern country at its best. Her hits in the Nineties ("Wild Angels," Independence Day," "Life #9," "Safe in the Arms of Love") were beacons of light in a darkness of clichéd and over-produced cowboy-disco tunes. Martina continues her tradition of tasteful tune picking and powerful but never over-the-top vocals. "This One's for the Girls" mines much missed Mary Chapin Carpenter territory, while tunes like "In My Daughter’s Eyes" and "So Magical" (with its scenes of rural bliss) stay safely this side of excessive sentimentality thanks to McBride's considered performances. Even pop tunes like "When You Love Me" and "Learning to Fall" are kept country with an emphasis on guitars, fiddles, and steels over syrupy synthesizers. Throughout, producers Paul Worley and McBride herself give Nashville lessons on how to make a record that is shiny but never slick. Finally, her live performance of "Over the Rainbow" is a lesson on delivering a show-stopping vocal with minimal melisma and maximum soul. --Michael Ross | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Audio CD Release Date: | September 30, 2003 | | Studio: | RCA | | Number Of Discs: | 1 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 87 reviews |
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| | Track Listing | | 1. | So Magical | | 2. | She's A Butterfly | | 3. | City Of Love | | 4. | This One's For The Girls | | 5. | How Far | | 6. | Reluctant Daughter | | 7. | Wearing White | | 8. | When You Love Me | | 9. | In My Daughter's Eyes | | 10. | Learning To Fall | | 11. | God's Will | | 12. | Over The Rainbow | |
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 She does It Again! May 30, 2010
I love Martina McBride,however this isn't her strongest album.Although it easily deserves 4 stars as Martina never makes a bad album!
She begins the album with some easy listening pop/country tunes like So Magical,She's A Butterfly and City Of Love.It's these 3 songs that I feel let down the album a bit.They're good but not great-Martina can do way better than that!!
However she brings it back with some fantastic gems like the feel good hit This One's For The Girls (a song about celebrating women-excellent song) and the big ballad How Far that she's belts out with ease.Another cracker of a song is the soft Bluegrass themed song Reluctant Daughter,which Ricky Skaggs arranged and sings harmonies on.And the real country themed song Wearing White with Vince Gill on harmonies.
She ends the album with some beautiful ballads,the hit God's Will and a live track of her version of Over The Rainbow which is quite simply stunning.It ends the album perfectly.
Overall an essential album to your country and Martina collection.
 Beautiful voice, schmalzy songs Jan 03, 2009
Martina Mcbride has an absolutely beatuful voice--as she shows on "Over the Rainbow." Unfortunately, however, the majority of the songs that she chose for "Martina" are way too shmalzy for my taste. I much prefer some of her earlier releases like "The Way That I Am."
 Little here to please an old-fashioned country fan Dec 08, 2008
I liked the single okay -- a glossy but propulsive gal-power anthem called "This One's For The Girls" -- but with the exception of a tune or two, the rest of this album is really just a bit much. Her soul-styled glissandos are a real turnoff, particularly on tracks like "How Far" and "When You Love Me," and almost every song on here is horribly overwritten, and horribly over-obvious. All these songs about Everywoman and Everywoman's interior monologues and self-helpy struggle for self-affirmation... Geez, louise... Doesn't anyone in Nashville still believe in just writing catchy, twangy little songs that the folks at home can can sing along to and enjoy? That's the stuff I like, and the stuff that's kept me interested in Country for over thirty years... not all this high-concept glitziness and the big, loud pop arrangements.
This is one of McBride's most "pop" albums, and her newer fans will probably love it... This is pretty much along the same lines as her other recent work. But there's little here to please an old-fashioned country fan like me. (Axton)
 Martina McBride Sep 15, 2008
Love this CD. Especially Martina's song: "In my daughter's Eyes". Bought as a gift for my daughter who recently gave birth to her first daughter. Thanks!!!!!!
Great CD, Great Person Feb 11, 2008
Martina Mcbride maybe has the best voice of her generation, so versatile and so powerful. But only the powerful is not enough, Martina also shows great talent as a songwriter. In her songs, Martina always concerns love and problem in our life, like Concrete Angel in her greatest hit, like many in this album, especially, In My Daughter's Eyes.
Martina is really a good person and especially a good mother, unlike Britney Spears or Paris Hilton, Martina should always be a great role model to say when talking with our future generations.
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