Disco de Reba McEntire: “Behind the Scene [1999]”

So sings a longing Reba in what has to be one of the finest songs she has ever recorded! I can listen to that one song and never get tired. If you want to learn how to sing you should hear Reba on that song "You Really Better Love Me After This". Its a song that would make the hair on the back of your neck stand up!!!!! This album is worth a mind of diamonds for that song alone!! Reba if you're reading this, please, please, resurrect this song and put it in your live show! Its the most beautiful, haunting song you've ever done!!!

This is the most traditional-sounding of Reba's Mercury releases - not quite as traditional as My kind of country and the three albums that followed it, but close. It was Reba's last album of original material for the label, so perhaps she recorded just what she wanted. (Yes, I know about the album Reba Nell McEntire, but that was a compilation of unreleased recordings, released after Reba had left Mercury.) The album contains a great mix of up-tempo songs and ballads.

Nickel dreams is a song that inspired Tanya Tucker, who never got around to recording the song but used the title for her autobiography (a book definitely worth reading). Tanya said that the song could have been written about her.

Reba wrote Reasons, which is a song full of the kind of metaphors that traditional country fans enjoy but that often alienate the uncommitted, who don't always understand. To explain - Reba prefers steaks to hot dogs because steaks are better quality. Reba wants only the best.

There are many other fine songs here but, being an end-of-contract album, it probably wasn't promoted as much as it might have been. Nevertheless, this is a fine album that all fans of Reba's traditional country albums should seek out.

Every one was commenting on the song "You Really Better Love Me After This" so I ordered this and I got it today and all I can say is "they weren't wrong". This has to absolutely be the best song that Reba has ever recorded. It makes everything she has done before or after pale!!! The song is hauntingly brilliant and Reba's vocal is so spectactular that naturally anything is going to pale. One keeps listening to it over and over again and is held spellbound!! This is the main reason to buy this CD. What I can't figure out is why Mercury didn't have the foresight to release this as a single or why Reba doesn't include it in her concert performances because it is truly amazing! I'd give her ten thousand standing ovations just to hear her do this one!! What a song! The rest of the album aint bad either.

This is an excellent CD from her Mercury years and I would stand it up against her mediocre 90s material any day, any how, any time!!!

Her last Mercury release was one of her best!! I enjoyed every bit of it and Reba soars on so many of the songs!! I liked the uptempo material especially "One Good Reason" and "Needles and Pins"! Go Reba!!