Rest assured, it's highly unlikely that Martina McBride will ever issue another record that sounds like The Time Has Come. With co-producers Paul Worley and Ed Seay (who also worked with her on her breakthrough, The Way That I Am), McBride delivers a set of neo-traditionalist country and progressive country-inflected folk songs that showcase her ability to get to the heart of a song and turn it into something communicative and thought provoking. With a host of Nashville superpickers and backing vocalists from Garth Brooks and Carl Jackson to Kathy Chiavola, McBride turns in intense performances of the Emory Gordy/Jim Rushing classic "Cheap Whiskey" for a neo-honky tonk feel, as well as the stompin' nightclub country of the Longacre/Wilson-penned title track and the Lonnie Wilson/Charlotte Wilson/Herbert Wilson weeper "Losing You Feels Good." The album ends with Gretchen Peters' "When You're Old," a meditative love song delivered with the empathy, grace, and elegance that have become McBride's trademark. This is a very solid debut, even if it resembles none of her other work.
The Time Has Come
Martina McBride
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The Time Has Come Review
by Thom Jurek
Track Listing
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| 1 | Martina McBride | 02:33 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
| 2 | Martina McBride | 03:52 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
| 3 | Martina McBride | 02:58 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
| 4 | Martina McBride | 03:20 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
| 5 | Martina McBride | 02:49 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
| 6 | Martina McBride | 03:08 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
| 7 | Martina McBride | 02:46 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
| 8 | Martina McBride | 03:17 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
| 9 | Martina McBride | 04:02 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
| 10 | Martina McBride | 03:07 | SpotifyAmazon |
