Disco de Jessica Andrews: “Now”

WOW!!! What a resonating and spectacular voice JESSICA ANDREWS has been blessed with! She's 19 years old and this is her third album! GREAT SHOW on PBS' AUSTIN CITY LIMITS - she is a confident, sparkling performer onstage, and her "live" vocals are powerful, soulful and she's a focused, entertaining performer - she is magically enchanting! I cannot wait till her next album.

Jessica Andrews is back with her third effort NOW, and it's a nice timepiece for this young artist. The selection of songs is quite interesting, there is quite a variety here. It opens with the song she helped pen, titled "There's More To Me Than You", an uptempo "get over your ex" type song, with a resonant message. There is also a hidden track, that is the ballad version of this song. She jumps from ballads to uptempos, with the same sweet voice we've come to love. The title track is an inspired love song that is destined to become a couples favorite. She heartbreakingly sings "God Don't Give Up On Us", a track that is resonant today as ever, with the times we are living in. Rebecca Lynn Howard helped pen "Cowboy Guarantee", easily one of the album's best, with a landscape of sound and a compelling story that Andrews sings convincingly. The inspired ballad "I Wish For You" is bound to become a classic for Andrews, like "Who I Am", from her last album of the same name. There's quite a few sentimental songs, to name a few, "They Are The Roses", "I Wish For You", "Never Be Forgotten" and "Windows On A Train", that work quite well.

Not by any chance is the album filled with ballads, there is a healthy dose of uptempo material. "Second Sunday" is bound to become a big hit, you would think it was a pop song with its catchy chorus, but here's plenty of fiddle and steel all over it. "Sunshine And Love" is a pleasant, uptempo, optomistic song that works well with Andrews' warm vocals.

Overall NOW shows the continued growth we see in Andrews career as each album passes, she is building upon that growth we first saw with 2001's WHO I AM. It seems more and more, as a young adult, with each album she is putting the pieces together about who she is, and you would have no trouble believing this sweet singer is not being sincere with her words.

Jessica Andrews has done it again. Her new album "NOW" is phenomenal. Jessica does an excellent job delivering beautiful lyrics. It is great to see her doing so well. This album Starts with the first single "There's More To Me Than You", which is my favorite song on the album. "When Gentry Plays Guitar" is one of those songs that just gets stuck in your head and you just sing it over and over. "I Wish For You" is a beautiful song about wishing the best life has to offer for someone. "To Love You Once" is a fun, kind of pop sounding song that just lifts your spirit. These are just a few of the songs on the 16 track album, number 16 being a hidden bonus track of the ballad version of "There's More To Me Than You" which is just beautiful. With "Now", Jessica is establishing herself with the country greats like Faith Hill and Martina McBride. "Now" is definitely worth every penny you will pay for the album. GREAT JOB JESSICA!...

The first 2 albums from Jessica Andrews (heart shaped world,and 'who I am) are 2 of my very favorite albums and the very first song I ever heard from Jessica was 'More To Me Than You' from this very CD 'Now'

from the first time I heard it I fell in love with that beautiful song and with this amazing singer

she is absolutely amazing,I can't stress this enough and I'm a lead singer in a hard rock band and my favorite style of music is hair metal and yet here I am absolutely obsessed with this great "country" singer (much like my absolute favorite singer LeAnn Rimes)

I would honestly not consider any of these albums from Jessica as Country because there are no annoying over used banjos or fiddles...just good straight forward well-thought out songs

the album opens with 'more to me than you' which is absolutely brilliant and one of the stand out songs of the album

it then goes to 'when gentry plays guitar' which has lots of atmosphere and really let's jessica's voice shine

from there is the highlight of the album in my opinion,the beautiful ballad 'I wish for you' I confess I had tears when I first heard this song,it's that beautiful,it's a song about wishing love and happiness for someone

from there it just continues with near perfection

'to love you once' is awesome

'you're the man' 'Cowboy guarantee'

and the incredibly sexy and cute 'second Sunday'

and the album finishes with 'God don't give up on us' a very serious song about the state of the world

and finishes with 'Good Time' which has such a down home good time feel that you'll find yourself singing along (kinda reminds me of something the dukes of hazzard would listen to,but this is the only song that fits in that catagory)

over all this is nearly perfect

the only thing missing that prevents me from giving it a 5 star is it has a bit too much of a sad vibe to it,too many slow songs

and the cute sexiness that she had in her voice for the first 2 albums is all but gone on this one (with the exception of 'second Sunday)

but it's still one amazing album from start to finish and I would recommend it to anyone,not just country fans but fans of all styles of music

the upside - Jessica is amazing,these songs are nearly perfect,the standouts are 'more to me than you' 'second Sunday' 'I wish for you' and 'God don't give up on us'

the downside - a bit too many slow songs weigh it down slightly

the bottom line - this is nearly perfection,Jessica please release a new album! She has the perfect voice to take the music business by storm

I recommend this to fans of all styles of music,the songwriting is top notch and Jessica is a true musical force...donutman says so!!!

I have always been taken by her voice on her previous albums, but not all the songs were pleasurable.

This is DEFINITELY HER BEST ALBUM. Every song is wonderful,

and I can't play it enough.

I would recommend this absolutely.