Martina
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- Martina
- 歌手：Martina Mcbride
- 语种：英语
- 时间：2003年09月
- 公司：SN唱片
Martina McBride是美国乡村音乐界不多见的能够在音乐和商业两方面持续保持上升势头的歌手。这是她的第六张录音室专辑，并且再次取得了进步，首周以12万2 千6百张的成绩成为了Billboard乡村专辑榜的冠军以及Billboard 200排行榜的第七名，这样高的首周销量排名，创下了Martina McBride的专辑纪录。
在完成了一系列的巡演之后，马不停蹄的推出新专辑显然是要进一步推动自己新专辑的商业成绩。在这张专辑中，Martina保持了相对比较原装的创作和制作班底，Martina的老公John McBride在专辑制作过程中继续担任混音师，除了保持稳定之外，她还邀请了乡村音乐天后Faith Hill前来协助，在专辑的多首单曲录制中，Faith Hill不惜只在幕后做背景和声的绿叶工作。在专辑中也可以继续体会到Martina McBride对女儿的那份溺爱，可以说许多歌曲都是为女儿Delaney所唱的，有的从字面上就可以感受到，有的则是从内心深处发出的真挚的母爱。而一向有爱心的Martina在歌曲内容上依然少不了富有怜悯的成分。专辑中的音乐风格依然还是可以令许多人接受的比较流行的乡村音乐，旋律优美而流畅，加上 Martina投入的演唱很能给人以感染。
应该说这张专辑还是保持了Martina原有的许多优点，并且通过一系列的巡演之后，她的音乐并没有产生下滑，而是继续保持在一个高的水平上，作为顶尖的乡村女歌手，在这张专辑中我们还是完全可以领略到她的演唱实力和她对音乐内容的那份真实的诠释的。
Martina McBride is something of a marvel. Throughout her career she has managed to walk a tightrope between Nash-Vegas commercial concerns and the high art of well-crafted songwriting and serious singing that makes up modern country at its best. Her hits in the Nineties ("Wild Angels," Independence Day," "Life #9," "Safe in the Arms of Love") were beacons of light in a darkness of clichéd and over-produced cowboy-disco tunes.
Martina continues her tradition of tasteful tune picking and powerful but never over-the-top vocals. "This One's for the Girls" mines much missed Mary Chapin Carpenter territory, while tunes like "In My Daughter’s Eyes" and "So Magical" (with its scenes of rural bliss) stay safely this side of excessive sentimentality thanks to McBride's considered performances.
Even pop tunes like "When You Love Me" and "Learning to Fall" are kept country with an emphasis on guitars, fiddles, and steels over syrupy synthesizers. Throughout, producers Paul Worley and McBride herself give Nashville lessons on how to make a record that is shiny but never slick. Finally, her live performance of "Over the Rainbow" is a lesson on delivering a show-stopping vocal with minimal melisma and maximum soul.