Reba Mcentire’s 16th album, entitled Sweet Sixteen is definely as sweet as the title says! Starting this great album out is a remake of an old Everly Brother’s song, Cathy’s Clown! Reba does this remake justice! Reba has often said in the past that the Everly Brothers were an inspiration for her, so she wanted to put on her 16th effort a song to revive the memories of her youth! Reba does a fantastic job here and she keeps the song just as good as the original was! This is one you will play quite often if you like this classic song! Next we come to Til Love Comes Again, and also staying true to inspirations, she sort of brings out a Patsy Cline style here! You can almost feel that Patsy was in the studio with Reba! Also it is just as country as one can possibly get, with a fiddle in the background, but yet just as smooth as any Patsy ballad could be!
This song really moves the listener! It is a song about hope and destiny! One day love is going to come and wash the pain away that one is feeling! A great classic country tune! The third song on this album is about divorce and how it effects a young person and his mother! This song is called It Always Rains On Saturday. Starting out very beautiful on piano, Reba comes in very soft on her vocals here! Reba tells the story of how a young boy goes to visit his father, and of course the mother is feeling lonely, and due to the saddenss of divorce, the mother here is having a hard time letting her little guy go!
This song is deep and rich in vocal, and very deep in topic! Anyone who has suffered divorce, weather you are a person who had parents who split or you yourself have gone through such heartache, this song is very much relatable! Beautiful, but yet a tear jerker of a song here! The fourth track on this great cd is titled Am I The Only One Who Cares? This song was co-written by Reba! An up tempoed song, very country, and a two steppin type of tune! Reba soars on her vocal here! This could have gone out to radio, it is very catchy and very likeable! Track #5 is a song called Somebody Up There Likes Me, a song that was written by a former back up singer in Reba’s band, Suzy Wills. Suzy was one of the members who tragically died in the plane crash that took 7 band members lives......
This song is bright and up beat, and I personally like this, and being a huge fan of Reba, I play this one alot, in honor Miss Suzy Wills who wrote a great song about the man upstairs! It has a gospel/pop feel to it! It is sung very well, and Reba takes this song to the heart! This is a great song to play when you have had a bad day, or when just feel like playing a very joyful tune! Probably the best song on this album! Track #6 is a song called You Must Really Love Me, and also another song co-written by Reba! Very country bound, and mid tempoed! Sweet harmony is here, and just a very likeable song! This is a song about someone who really loves her enough to stay with her, no matter how difficult she can be! Also a relatable tune! We all have had people in our past who can stick out the good and the bad, and that this is what this song is about! Say The Word is track #7, a cute and rock-a-billy kind of song! This song is also a song that could be another Patsy Cline like song! Reba has the knack of finding songs that reach back into the people who have inspired her through out the years! This song is very up beat and just one you could dance to!
Another personal favorite of mine! Track #8 is a song called Little Girl. Reba tells you the story of how a she is just like a little girl, who always chased after things in her life that were always hard to get, comparing adulthood to childhood, and the end of this great tear jerker, she says at the end ’’Daddy I have learned to slow down yet’’...makes you want to cry since it is very relatable! She dicusses love in this song, but yet takes you back to where most of us get that stubborness from, and it all goes back to childhood! A sad, but yet beautiful tune from Reba! This is one you will probably play time and time again! Track #9 is one of Reba’s biggest hits of all time and also a song that went all the way to #1, a song called Walk On, this is a song you will find on both Greatest Hits Vol 2, and also on her recently released double cd, #1’s! This upbeat song is fun, but also has a positive message in it too! She tells you here to just ’’Walk On’’ when things get rough!
She also says instead of just sticking around and getting knocked down every time, get on with life and move on, the sun will shine again sometime soon! Another personal favorite of mine! You are sure to play this time and time again! Reba closes out Sweet Sixteen with a song called A New Love! This upbeat tune was written by a famous song writer! Dave Loggins wrote this upbeat tune! Very dancy, and very much something I call Pop-a-billy! Cute and very up lifting! Reba does justice for this song! Too bad this fun and upbeat tempoed tune did not hit radio! Very likable and catchy! This song sort of puts you to mind a future hit maker named Leann Rimes! Sweet Sixteen may be an older album, but it is a classic from Reba and great to listen to! You are sure to play Sweet Sixteen over and over again! This album is best to play at all times! Take it in your car, or just when you are jammin around the house!