Greatest Hits LeAnn Rimes
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LeAnn Rimes's first greatest-hits package offers real bang for the buck. It effectively charts the country-pop chanteuse's career arc, from the startling debut, "Blue," to a new song, "This Love," which returns her to the booming...
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LeAnn Rimes's first greatest-hits package offers real bang for the buck. It effectively charts the country-pop chanteuse's career arc, from the startling debut, "Blue," to a new song, "This Love," which returns her to the booming pop-country power ballads she helped pioneer and seemed destined to own before her detour into glossy, high-tech contemporary pop. Rimes made that detour early on in her career, as the twangy Patsy Cline in her mutated into a Madonna sound-alike on dance hits such as the Diane Warren–penned "Can't Fight the Moonlight," and then she adopted Elton John's stilted phrasing when she dueted with him on the syrupy, orchestrated love ballad "Written in the Stars." But the country gal was never far from the surface, and she knocks big productions such as "The Light in Your Eyes" and the gospel-influenced "Big Deal" out of the park with a bluesy, urgent delivery reminiscent of Wynonna at her most sultry. In 1999, Rimes returned to Patsy Cline territory with a take on Willie Nelson's "Crazy," replete with a string-laden, Owen Bradley–style production and a riveting vocal attack marked by sustained, ascending wails and low, throaty moans, at once seductive and heartbreaking. Released just prior to the holidays, the disc closes out with a dramatic reading of "O Holy Night" that finds Rimes going from a captivating whisper to a full-throated, jubilant shout over a clattering orchestral arrangement. Rimes's material has not always been of the highest caliber, but when she wraps those pipes around a meaningful lyric, as she does often on this collection, it's quite the aural experience. David McGee, Barnes & Noble
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