#Keep on loving you cracker#

The album's lead single, ' Strange' was released Apto radio and was first performed at the Academy of Country Music Awards a few days before. Whitney Pastorek of Entertainment Weekly gave Keep On Loving You a 'B−' rating, stating, 'Though her voice has aged well, few of these tunes provide it enough of a challenge, and the ones that do often sound like something she's already done better.' Commercial performance He criticized the lyrics and 'sometimes-sterile production' of some songs but added, 'Despite the flaws, the album has more than enough redeeming qualities, and with any luck, the right single choices should reverse the long, slow decline that her musical career has been on since the beginning of the decade, and prove that age should not be a factor in an artist's success.' As far as the new fans this set clearly hopes to gain, it's got the right elements if country music's finicky youth-obsessed radio and video machine can hear this set for what it is, listeners will connect in droves.' īobby Peacock of Roughstock also gave a generally positive review, saying that some songs such as 'Consider Me Gone', the second single, recalled her early-1990s work. In concluding his review, Jurek said 'The bottom line here is that Keep on Loving You may jar some longtime Reba fans on first listen, but despite the record's sound it's all her in this mix, and they will more than likely celebrate this. He gave Keep On Loving You three out of five stars. McEntire's voice hasn't lost even a touch of its range and power she's a belter who can hang with the best of them.' He also felt the opening track, ' Strange' to follow the same format. The cream of country music's current chart crop wrote its 13 songs it is certainly a radio-friendly collection that is supposed to showcase McEntire's adaptability and that she's still 'got it,' and can still score in the contemporary marketplace.' Thom Jurek also found Keep On Loving You to radio friendly, calling the title track, 'I'll Keep on Lovin' You' be 'a midtempo ballad that is saturated in compressed guitars and Hammond B-3, big repetitive choruses, and a chorus of fiddles and backing vocals. Thom Jurek of Allmusic praised the album's production, saying, 'Despite its release on an indie, the production and approach are anything but, with the album being produced by Tony Brown and Mark Bright.

#Keep on loving you cracker#

The title track was later recorded by co-writer Ronnie Dunn on the Cracker Barrel edition of his self-titled debut album in 2012.Ĭritical reception Professional ratings Review scores 'Eight Crazy Hours' was recorded by Shelly Fairchild on her debut album Ride, and 'Nothing to Lose' was recorded by Trisha Yearwood in 2007 on her Greatest Hits release. 'I Want a Cowboy', was originally recorded by Katrina Elam on her self-titled debut album and 'Pink Guitar' was recorded by Jasmine Rae on her debut album Look It Up. Many of the album's songs had previously been recorded by other country music artists. The eighth track, 'She's Turning 50 Today' was co-written by McEntire herself, as well as Liz Hengber and Tommy Lee James. Keep On Loving You was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee in early 2009 and consists of thirteen tracks. The album's third single, the Ronnie Dunn co-written title track, was released in February 2010 and has become a Top Ten hit on the country charts.ĭespite changing labels, McEntire remains with Universal Music Group (which controls her entire catalog including her Mercury Nashville years), as Valory's parent label, Big Machine Records, is distributed by Universal. The song also went on to become the biggest hit of her career, topping the charts for four weeks. The album contains ' Strange,' which is the highest-debuting single of McEntire's career, as well as the hit single ' Consider Me Gone,' McEntire's first Number One hit since ' Somebody' in August 2004. In 2008, she exited her label of twenty five years, MCA Nashville after the release of Reba: Duets (2007). Keep On Loving You is McEntire's first solo studio album in six years, since the release of 2003's Room to Breathe and her first for the Valory label (in conjunction with her company, Starstruck Entertainment). It was released Augon Starstruck/ Valory and on Humphead Records in the UK, and was produced by Tony Brown, Mark Bright, and McEntire. Keep On Loving You is the twenty-seventh studio album by American country music singer Reba McEntire.