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I have to say it is, at the very least, a touch disingenuous of Trisha to put only six new songs on an album, and have the other ten be re-do’s of her previous hits, whether it was because she didn’t own the masters to the originals, or for whatever reason. In fact, I would go so far as to label what she does on this album even dishonest–the sort of plot that the two female artists she admires the most, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, would each have avoided like the plague.
Unlike many, I am not necessarily down on remakes, particularly when done as well as these. I find it more dishonest , much more dishonest, to place mediocre songs on an album in order to garner songwriter’s royalties for oneself or one’s favorite songwriters.
Many of today’s albums contain a lot of mediocre crap , placed on the albums under the guise of “care and feeding of favored songwriters”
This is a very good album and should be evaluated on its own terms, not on the basis of some real or imagined agenda. There is nothing dishonest about this this album
If a veteran, legendary artist wants to re-record his classic hits at a later stage in life, that’s fine. If I’m a Merle Haggard fan, I like the original recordings of songs like “The Bottle Let Me Down” and “Mama Tried” that he made when he was in his 20s–but if he wants to tackle a few of those classic songs on when he’s in his 50s or 60s, with a lot of wear and tear on him, I’m interested in hearing what he does with them.
But I have no interest in hearing note for note remakes of an artist “impersonating her younger self” as Trisha Yearwood admitted these recordings are.
The “A” rating seems like severe grade inflation, given the comments that preceded it.
It’s rare that LOS and I agree, but I fully agree this time. I like the new songs, particularly “Remember” and “Hotel”, but note for note rerecordings seem like a complete waste of time, resources and effort. I don’t completely subscribe to it being dishonest or anything that sinister, but I do think that the fans who have been patiently, or not so patiently, waiting for new music from her have a right to be disappointed, since they already have all of her greatest hits.