★★★★★
Pam Tillis and Lorrie Morgan have been touring together for a while now (sharing a band, swapping stories) so the idea to come out with a new "duo" album was a smart idea. And for a majority of Dos Divas (released under the title "Grits and Glamour"), the album works really well and in other places where the album's mixing gets a little out of hand, the songs still win. Case in point is the brilliantly written "I Am A Woman...
- www.roughstock.com
2013-07-26
★★★★★
Thank God Pam Tillis lost her record deal. She probably misses the deep pockets the label had, but she's got something even better. Tillis has her mojo back. As she ages, Tillis' voice just gets richer and more soulful. That wonderful voice is just now starting to ripen. Now that she has her own imprint label, she can control her own artistic direction; she can write and sing the songs that she wants to write and sing without worrying about singles or chasing a radio hit...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Okay, another one of my tenets of Christmas music is that the songs need to be big, sort of communal numbers that burst with merry bombast, delivered by slightly mad-eyed wholesome singers (Andy Williams) or great voices (Crosby, Sinatra) so assured of their talent and stature that they'll sing about the joys of making snowmen or waiting for Santa with a totally straight face - and most likely an empty flask...
- www.ink19.com
2009-07-20
★★★★★
No text for this review; see http://robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg90/grades-90s.php.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
On her first outing as a
solo producer, Pam Tillis exercises her love of sinewy ballads (''The
River and the Highway'') and novelty tunes (''Betty's Got a Bass
Boat''). Her album, All of This Love, is less serious than last year's breakthrough Sweetheart's Dance, which made her a major player. Less grabby,
too. B
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
A scion of the Tillis country music dynasty, with a clutch of number ones and a brace of Grammies to her name, Pam Tillis is certified Nashville gentry. Five years since her last album and with her fiftieth birthday imminent, her hallmarks remain wry toe-tappers and tender, heartbroken guitar ballads from the Lucinda Williams school - all of it offering a spit and sawdust rebuttal to the narcissism and glitz of contemporary 'catwalk country'...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2009-06-12
★★★★★
It might have been obvious to everyone else, but it took PamTillis two decades to realize she really is a country singer. Thedaughter of Mel Tillis, Pam had twang on her tongue and sawdust inher blood, yet the disco and blues she tried early in her careerproved alien to her system. Tillis finally found commercial successwith her first all-out country albums (1991's Put Yourself in MyPlace and 1992's Homeward Looking Angel), but her third, Sweetheart'sDance, signifies her arrival as a contender...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Pam Tillis, daughter of country great Mel, flirted with a number ofmusical styles ? mostly blues, rock, and pop ? before giving in to herhonky-tonk heritage. The mystery is why she waited so long...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Though the hunk trend in country music is in full swing, threewomen with new albums have still managed to scale the charts. LorrieMorgan has amended her ready-and-willing "Victoria's Secret" look toa more innocent pixie image, but her fourth album, Watch Me,preserves both her no-nonsense persona ("What Part of No") and herdramatic flair for woman-to-woman ballads about heartache ("Someoneto Call Me Darling")...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
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