Trisha Yearwood Album: “Jasper County”

Trisha Yearwood has really hit the target perfectly with Jasper County. Her Debut single ,Georgia Rain, has a soft touch country style.Needless to say ,her vocals were quite extensively beautiful and loud. The album gives us a variety of styles all fitting in the country mode. "Who Invented The Wheel" starts us off with an musically upbeat breakup song. What a combo!

"Pistol" gives us a very upbeat song about the dangers of the wild life of love. I love her version of "Standing Out In A Crowd".It's the sweet dawning of a childhood problem seen as an adult-being different."River of You" makes me fall more in love with record as I listen. I give it an A+ . This is an excellent CD.

Following Garth Brooks marriage to Trisha Yearwood,a new song titled "Love Will Always Win" is being added to a re-release of Jasper County Feb.7th,2006.This song is a Yearwood/Brooks duet.

I love it as is ,however.

After an eternally long wait from one of my all time favorite singers, JASPER COUNTY delivers wonderful songs and that amazing voice....Song selection remains true to her roots. The only downside is that after 4 years, I would expect more than a 38 minute CD.......definitely room for at least 4 more songs on the CD.

This is a re-release of Trisha Yearwood's 2005 album JASPER COUNTY, her first album in 4 years. It features a brand new duet with husband Garth Brooks entitled "Love Will Always Win", which was previously recorded by Faith Hill on an import album in 1998/1999. It's a pleasant duet sure to please. The rest of the cd is great. The first single "Georgia Rain" is classic Yearwood, so is the second single "Trying To Love You". Both sported beautiful videos, but "Trying to Love You" failed to catch on at radio, and they gave up on the song in favor of the new duet with Garth. The rest of the songs are a mixture of ballads, uptempos, and more. The ballads are especially nice, like "Try Me" with Ronnie Dunn from Brooks & Dunn, "Standing Out In A Crowd", "Gimme The Good Stuff". She does a cover of Anthony Smith's "Who Invented The Wheel", which opens up the cd, and another highlight is "River of You", both which show her tremendous voice and have a bluesy sound. Other songs include the uptempos "It's Alright", "Pistol", and "Baby Don't You Let Go", and the bluesy "Sweet Love". A great cd from one of the best female vocalists in country music!

I was so happy to see Trisha Yearwood finally released a new album. Her voice sounds as exceptional as ever on these tracks. There are a few beautiful songs here, such as "Who Invented the Wheel", "Georgia Rain", "Trying To Love You", "River of You", and "Sweet Love". Unfortunately there are a lot of mediocre songs on this album that I found disappointing. As has been said by some other reviewers, I would expect Trisha to be able to find some top material and not so much of this 'filler'. I also have to give this album a 4 rating instead of a 5 because of the length. 38 minutes is not acceptable these days, in my opinion, and the album could have used 2 or 3 more tracks. But based on Trisha's splendid voice, the emotion she shares with her audience, and the good songs that are on the album, I am rating "Jasper County" 4 stars.

Prime Cuts: Tryin' to Love You, Georgia Rain, Who Inverted the Wheel

Instead of reinventing her wheel, Yearwood returns to her mother milk that brought her first to fame. Reuniting with original producer Garth Fundis, there's an incumbent sound that brings to mind her earlier "Hearts in Armor" days, with its share of soaring ballads, thick Delta blues, swaggering rockers and stately propulsive pop tunes. Despite, her meticulous attempts to record and re-record until this CD sheens with satisfaction taking an unprecedented four years in the making, "Jasper County" has not live up to its commercial hype. After making up to a modest number 15, lead single "Georgia Rain" has slip out of the charts obliviously, while the followup "Tryin' to Love You" only hovers around the top 50s. Being as enterprising as she is (after all she's married to the king of marketing Garth Brooks), "Jasper Country" will get another lease of life on Feb. 7 boasting one bonus track "Love Will Always Win," a duet with hubby Garth Brooks.

Without a doubt, the killer fare here are the ballads: the keyboard-led "Georgia Rain"-a painstaking memoir of a lost love told with such acerbic details as though they were lifted straight out of a person's diary. Such a bitter-sweet texture gets a reprise again on the Bill Boyd and Beth Neilsen Chapman penned "Tryin' to Love You" (first recorded by Chapman before). "Tryin' to Love You," an acoustic ballad about with the protagonist trapped in the entanglements of love that has reached its dead end, is soul searching and heart grabbing. While "Who Inverted the Wheel" is a bluesy ballad with a wrinkle of the delta-ambiance of Yearwood's top 5 hit "Wrong Side of Memphis." This time again finding our protagonist bemoaning the fact that if wheels, asphalt and cars were not invented, her paramour would not have left.

Rocking with a large dose of country soul is "Sweet Love," this Craig Wiseman/Tia Seller composition is perhaps this CD's most commercial uptempo track. Set at a bullet speed pace, the appropriately titled "Pistol" finds Yearwood surrounded by some snarling electric guitars and propulsive drum beat. Though the rest of the songs are a tilted towards being lyrically rich exploring the intricate sides of love, many of which are short-changed in terms of their melodies. Not that they are bad, but don't expect another "She's in Love with the Boy," "XXXs and OOOs" or "I Wanna Go Too Far."

Like her peers Lorrie Morgan and Sara Evans, Yearwood will not settle for those non-descript bland "I-heard-it-all-before" type of love songs. Rather, when she sings the Georgian rain, you can smell the first scent of the summer down pour, you can see feel the passion of a long-lost love and you can feel yourself being transported into Jasper County where you'll fall in love again with a lady who is not circumscribed in her outpourings of her emotions. In short, this is life, this is the real thing.