Stronger

 (32 customer reviews)

It's been a long wait for a new Sara Evans album since the brillant A Real Fine Place. Stronger kicks off with Desperately a nice uptempo song that is very catchy. The current smash hit single A Little Bit Stronger, now a Top 15 Country Hit is a good single from the film Country Strong. The highlight is My Heart Can't Tell You No a mid-tempo song that is full of Sara's voice sounding better than ever. This will hopefully be a single and I think it could go #1. Another great song is Ticket To Ride a real upbeat stomper. It's another song soon as it ends you just wanna play it again. Alone is a ballad and Sara is more controlled vocally, this one is about the lyrics. Anyway & Wildfire are upbeat & solid. Born To Fly the re-record of her older single is okay. The album is short but it is definately worth the purchase. There is a bonus song on the digitial version Cabana Boy which is a uptempo song. Highlights are My Heart Can't You No & Ticket To Ride. Nice to have Sara back with brand...Read more

Review title references my inability to give half-stars in the ratings. While I wouldn't call this a perfect release, it's still very good in my book and definitely better than just "I like it", so I'm rounding up to the "I love it" mark.

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Desperately - All I want is to be loved desperately... the whole world wants to be loved desperately. Up beat and poppish, and pleasing to the ears. Not a bad choice to start the album off even if the album was named for the second track rather than the first.

Stronger - known from the Country Strong soundtrack. I like the song, I love Sara Evans' vocals on it, but yet the song makes me sad in seeing the music video for it and/or hearing the words come from her since the song comes from a place of pain and sadness. I'd like to think that Sara Evans would never experience the type of emotions and events that run in the song and yet knowing her personal history over the last few years, there's...Read more

After waiting for so long for a new release from Sara Evans we end up with a nice but short release to listen to. On first listen it is very enjoyable. I enjoyed the upbeat selections, good convertible summertime music. However with only 9 new selections and 1 redone it's a ride that is seemingly over before it gets started. I think these days it's a bit lazy of an artist to release an album with just over 35 minutes of music on a disc. Especially when they have years in-between releases to gather material. Reminds me of the old days when that was all you could get on an album. Maybe there will be "extras" available to extend the music. Until then we have to take what little we are given.