Music Review

Country artist produced the album Reba Duets in the fall of 2007 in collaboration with many other popular artists including Rascal Flatts, Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Justin Timberlake, and pop artist Kelly Clarkson.

The album includes eleven newly released songs, all featuring Reba and a different second artist.
The opener for the album "When You Love Someone like That" is a song done with Leanne Rimes, following the typical country pattern of a broken heart. Reba portrays an older more experienced woman while Rimes plays the role of a girl just recently coming into the world.

Reba performs many love songs with the male artists being perhaps about a divorce as "Every Other Weekend" is with Kenny Chesney, or about a budding relationship such as "Does the Wind Still Blow in Oklahoma" performed with Ronnie Dunn. She ends the album with a final love song "Break Each Other's Hearts Again" with Don Henley.

Some of the songs done with the female artists are about a bad relationship yet several are worthy of mention for the emotions they stir in the first time listener. The song "Sleeping with the Telephone" with Faith Hill, is a song about a military man and a police officer and the emotions of the women while they wait for them to come home.

The song "Everyday People", done with Carole King, is a wonderful portrayal of the good of people in this world. It begins with seniors in college fixing homes in needy areas during spring break. It then proceeds to tell of a woman who can not afford health care when she gets sick because she is a single mother with several kids and how her neighbors came up with money to help. The final verse begins with the lyrics, "Little girl takes her Mama's hand/and walks inside saying 'please don't cry'/ as the people who built this house just for them/ laugh through the tears as the family moves in." This song shows and highlights the good in many people and many types of good deeds that people will perform and can do.

Her eleven song album is very good and will be admired by her previous fans as well as new ones. Each song is unique and shows a different light, both of the accompanying artists and Reba. The album itself is a good showcase of voices in country without it being a miscellaneous, unorganized soundtrack. I would recommend the album to any fan of her previous albums, movies, or TV series Reba.