Mindy McCready Album: “Ten Thousand Angels”

The voice of an angel. That's what instantly comes to mind when I put this cd in my cd player. Mindy McCready's debut album Ten Thousand Angels. Sure you know the big hits from here, such as Guys Do It All The Time, Ten Thousand Angels and more, but thats only the icing on the cake. Mindy McCready, from Florida, headed to Nashville in hopes of getting a recording contract. She told her mom she would stay one year, then come home. The 51st week she was in Nashville, she was signed with BNA/BMG, and this album was released.

Ten Thousand Angels shows a mature vocalist who has a keen ear for good songs and music. Songs like Without Love, Have A Nice Day and Maybe He'll Notice Her Now show Mindy's vocal quality quite well, as well as her emotional deliverance. Mindy also tears it up on fun songs like Guys Do It All The Time, A Girl's Gotta Do (What A Girl's Gotta Do) and It Aint A Party.

Overall Mindy's debut album is a great album. She shows a lot of talent, and a promise that she will be hanging around for a while. We are sure grateful of that!

I wonder where she went? She has a great voice and listening to this CD brings back tons of memories of days gone by. I would recommend this CD to anyone who likes to listen to female country artists with beautiful voices!

Mindy is a brilliant singer and gets the chance to show it on this excellent collection of songs. The title track is a song about vulnerability while Guys do it all the time is an amusing look at different attitudes regarding men and women. Other favorites of mine include Maybe he'll notice her now and A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do, although every song here is a gem.

The first nine tracks are (as far as I know) all originals, but the album closes with an oldie, Breaking it, which first appeared on a Claire Lynch album in the early eighties. Claire wasn't very enthusiastic about that album, but some great singers have covered songs from it.

Mindy has recorded some great music on her (so far) three subsequent albums, but none of those albums come close to matching the overall brilliance of this debut album. This is what I call quality contemporary country.

This is an excellent debut from Mindy. Her voice is beautiful and each song on here is good. "Guys do it all the time" is a fun slap in the face for all those "macho" types out there, the title song is my favourite though, but all are good, from the love songs to the fun songs. I hope she stays true to her roots though, and doesn't go the way of Leann Rimes and Faith Hill. One thing I have never understood though, is why nearly all country cds are limited to 10 tracks. This one for example is only 35 minutes long. Rock and pop cds quite often exceed 12 songs but country albums rarely even exceed 10. Anyway, thats just an observation, and doesn't take away from the worth of this album. Recommended.

Love it! She has a kick-a** voice along with some incredible songs. In my book, it's one of her best.