★★★★★
Janie Fricke has had success with various country styles, whether slower numbers, snappy hard-driving songs, or duet hits with the likes of Johnny Duncan, Charlie Rich, Merle Haggard and Moe Bandy. Like so many other country artists who have released bluegrass music projects, it only seems logical that she add that genre to her catalogue. She started her professional career as a Nashville backup vocalist in 1975...
- rootsmusicreport.com
2012-02-09
★★★★★
The versatility that made Frickie a jingles success might have been a liability as a solo performer. She's so adaptable that her voice might not have been distinctive enough. Here she sounds like a strong woman who's very familiar with heartache, and producer Bob Montgomery gives her some rockin' material to shout on.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Fricke has a big voice and gives the impression she can do a lot with it. She just never gets around to it on this record. Maybe it's the songs or maybe the arrangements, but she never seems to get into these songs or comes close to putting any emotion in her performances.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Saddle the Wind includes the minor hits "Where Does Love Go (When It's Gone)," "I'll Walk Before I'll Crawl" and "Heart."
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Somebody Else's Fire is a typically fine collection of tunes from one of the finest contemporary country singers of the '80s. The upbeat "Party Shoes," "Single Again," "Somebody Else's Fire," and the great tearjerker "Easy To Please" are among the album's highlights.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Sleeping With Your Memory is an impressively consistent album that matches its hits with material nearly as good. Fricke enjoyed two successful singles from the album, the mildly risque "Do Me With Love," and "Don't Worry 'Bout Me Baby," a country chart-topper that by all rights should have landed on the pop chart too...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
It is seldom a major event when a veteran performer re-records his or her old hits, but Janie Fricke's The Bluegrass Sessions is a happy exception. As the title indicates, Fricke didn't merely re-record her best-known songs -- she reinterpreted them with bluegrass instrumentation and completely new arrangements that differ considerably from the slick country-pop of the originals...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Fricke tackles songs by Steve Earle ("My Old Friend the Blues") and Katy Moffatt and Tom Russell ("Walking on the Moon") on Labor of Love.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28