Reba (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Reba
Type = Album
Artist = Reba McEntire


Released = April 18, 1988
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length = 35:15
Label = MCA
Producer = Jimmy Bowen
Reba McEntire
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hjftxqw5ldhe link]
Last album = "Merry Christmas to You"
(1987)
This album = "Reba"
(1988)
Next album = "Sweet Sixteen"
(1989) |

"Reba" not only signaled to the world that Reba McEntire had by now become so well known that she could be identified by first name alone, but also signaled an entirely different style to her music. Gone were the steel guitars and fiddles of "My Kind of Country" and "Have I Got a Deal for You", to be replaced by highly produced and orchestrated numbers that were country pop at best. Not that this would diminish her album sales any at all, as it was another #1 country album again (her third). Very typically, two of its tracks reached #1 on the Billboard country singles charts: "I Know How He Feels" and "New Fool at an Old Game". Another tune, a remake of an old jazz vocal standard made famous by Ella Fitzgerald, "Sunday Kind of Love", reached the #5 spot. Also covered is "Respect", a song made famous by Aretha Franklin.

Track listing

#"So, So, So Long" (Lisa Palas, Alan Taylor) - 3:40
#"Sunday Kind of Love" (Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Louis Prima, Stan Rhodes) - 3:04
#"New Fool at an Old Game" (Steve Bogard, Rick Giles, Sheila Stephen) - 3:50
#"You're the One I Dream About" (Pamela Bowen, Teresa Jackson) - 3:38
#"Silly Me" (Ben Weisman, Roberts Etoll) - 4:14
#"Respect" (Otis Redding) - 2:39
#"Do Right by Me" (Bogard, Giles) - 3:37
#"I Know How He Feels" (Rick Bowles, William Robinson) - 3:20
#"Wish I Were Only Lonely" (Bogard, Giles) - 4:00
#"Everytime You Touch Her" (Pamela Rose, Pat Bunch, Mary Ann Kennedy) - 3:52

Production

*Produced By Reba McEntire for Reba McEntire Productions & Jimmy Bowen for Lynwood Productions
*Mixed By John Guess at Masterfonics
*Engineered By Mark J. Coddington & Marty Williams
*Mastered By Glenn Meadows
*Digital Editing By Milan Bogdan

Credits

*Drums, Percussion: Russ Kunkel
*Bass: Wayne Nelson
*Keyboards: Mike Lawler, John Jarvis
*Guitars: Dann Huff, Pat Flynn, Pam Rose
*Mandolin & Bouzouki: Pat Flynn
*Harmonica: Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson
*Harmony Vocals: Suzy Hoskins, Pam Rose, Mary Ann Kennedy, Yvonne Hodges

Charts

Album – Billboard (North America)

Singles – Billboard (North America)