★★★★★
Despite the fact that she's had numerous country hits over the past decade, many still think of LeAnn Rimes as a pop singer thanks to her massive and evergreen hit "How Do I Live." But the 15-year-old girl that sang that song is now a young woman about to turn 31, who's crammed a whole lot of livin' into that decade and a half, not all of it fun, and who's rollercoaster of a life both public and private has inspired her best work ever...
- www.antimusic.com
2013-07-23
★★★★★
LeAnn Rimes' "Lady & Gentleman" There are no pictures of LeAnn Rimes in a bikini on her new album, "Lady & Gentlemen." And that's a good thing...
- www.hitfix.com
2011-10-17
★★★★★
The majority of LeAnn Rimes's Lady & Gentlemen consists of covers of well-known country hits, most of which were originally recorded by iconic male artists. If that concept wants for originality (Tanya Tucker's excellent My Turn took a similar approach back in 2009), it's nonetheless one that Rimes and her producers, Vince Gill and Darrell Brown, approach thoughtfully...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2011-09-27
★★★★★
LeAnn Rimes' debut album, Blue, is still a country-musicbest-seller and yielding hit singles, yet herpremature-in-every-sense follow-up, Unchained Melody/The Early Years, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart. Thatmeans there are an awful lot of people out there who crave thesound of Rimes' ringing voice singing anything. And I meananything ? even, on this motley collection of tracks cut beforeBlue, the umpteenth version of the Beatles' "Yesterday...
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
With half her 25 years spent in the biz, LeAnn Rimes's real advantage is what she doesn't know; she seems to have missed the memo about multiplatinum country stars going snoozily MOR. Her 10th studio disc throws in some Texas and Nashville, some blues changes and Bon Jovi cameos, some Tin Pan and some cornpone. The lighthearted genre-hopping suggests nothing so much as a Broadway smash about a restless country star, borrowing from many styles, beholden to none...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Which woman, exactly? The one who caught Patsy Cline in a bottle and went multi-platinum at age 13? Or the one who defected to generic chart-pop in 2002? At 22, Rimes is now a little of this and a little of that, draggin' the line between Nashville pop and the tradlands in search of a home for her freaky-magnificent vocal chops...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Not content to split the difference between Patsy Cline and Debbie Boone, this young teen and her in-it-to-win-it voice turn as grotesque as a mascaraed five-year-old in a beauty pageant. She begins by imagining a guy who "worships my body." Her Dad Rimes production and Carole Bayer Warren crossovers reveal Mutt Lange as the easygoing popster he is. She never cracks a smile, rarely revs a tempo...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
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