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| Can't Push A River | 
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Sales Rank: 821923
Category: Music
Artist: Jaci Rae
Publisher: North Shore Records, Inc.
Studio: North Shore Records, Inc.
Manufacturer: North Shore Records, Inc.
Label: North Shore Records, Inc.
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 656613608326
EAN: 0656613608326
ASIN: B0002VERBU
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Jaci Rae - Singer, Writer...Renaissance Woman Award Winning Singer, No. 1 Best Selling Author, Indie Crusader and Top Radio Show Host. No wonder they call her a renaissance woman! It would have been enough - more than enough - for anyone with a great voice and a dream. Win the Golden Music Awards "Female Vocalist of the Year"...earn the prestigious Levi Strauss award...garner a bunch of other industry awards...release some fantastic CDs as Jaci has and the average person could have died then with a great, big smile on their face. Jaci Rae is not your average person. Far from it, in fact. She is that rare woman in command of a range of creative skills, thoroughly able to impact the world with each one. A Singer...Like a River When Jaci started out in the music business, she was the greenest of greenies. An outsider's outsider. Faced with those kinds of impossible odds, the hopes of hundreds of thousands of other would-be singing stars have withered on the vine and died. It only made Jaci all the more determined. She had little idea how to launch her own singing career. There were, after all, no manuals on the subject. So she learned. Several years of trial and error later - of learning what made music execs and their unusual industry tick - yielded success. Great success in fact. To date, Jaci has achieved four number one singles on various stations across the country such as KOFI, KATX, KFTX and B105 to name a few, in her brand of heartfelt country...plus a top 15 spot on the ECMA charts in Europe. Her latest CD, Can't Push a River, is a critical and commercial success. Said DJ, Chris Allen, from Big Kat 98.9 in Minnesota: "There is so much heart and soul in Jaci's music! Incredible CD!" More praise followed. "This is a great CD. The first 2 songs are especially Terrific. All in all it's a great CD and should do well for her," said Grand Ole Opry Star, Ernie Ashworth. And from across the pond, Raymond Phillips from Country Harvest Radio in
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Great country music but failed ambitions May 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Jaci Rae has apparently become a very successful career woman, but that success was a by-product of her failure to fulfil her childhood (indeed, babyhood) ambitions to become a successful singer. Jaci says she was very clear about her ambitions from the age of three but nobody gave her any encouragement in that direction. Through it all, Jaci eventually recorded some music, but never made the big time. Apart from this album, I understand that Jaci recorded an 11-track self-titled album available on CD or as downloads (mainly original material), a 5-track mini-album only available on CD (Downhome girl, mainly original material but including a cover of Coat of many colors) and three singles, all covers, available only as downloads (Somewhere over the rainbow, Santa baby, Tennessee Chreistmas). I haven't heard any of these, but I'm sure they would be worth hearing.
Jointly produced by Mike Headrich, who alo plays guitar, steel guitar, banjo and dobro, and Jaci, the remaining musicians are Kenny Berry (bass, guitar, charts), Tim Attwood (piano, keyboards), Bob Courter (drums, percussion) and Joe Caverlee (Fiddle, mandolin) with Jackie Harling and Jaci providing backing vocals. The overall feel of the album is of contemporary country music that nevertheless owes a lot to traditional country music than much the music emanating from Nashville these days. The songs are of varing tempos, demonstrating Jaci's versatility.
I originally thought that most of these songs were originals, but this is not so although it may be that most of the songs are unfamiliar to you. There are covers of two famous songs from the sixties, these being Don't think twice (one of Bob Dylan's classic songs) and Crazy (written by Willie Nelson but immortalized by Patsy Cline). Martina McBride's fan will also recognize A broken wing (from her album Evolution) and Where I used to have a heart (from her abum, The way that I am). Other covers include When the time comes (first recorded by Sandi Patti), Under the rainbow (first recorded by Jenny Simpson for what seems to have been her only album) and Completely (co-written and first recorded by Jennifer Day, another country singer with unfulfilled ambitions).
Boots on her feet, credited to an unknown writer, is presumably a cover of a traditional song but I haven't heard this song elsewhere and can't trace it on the internet. The remaining four songs (Goin' till I'm gone, Lost in Texas, Can't push a river, Something's going to happen) really do appear to be originals as I can't trace other versions of these songs. One of Ashlee Simpson's congs (Unreachable) mentions that you can't push a river in its lyrics, but it's a completely different song.
One way or another, Jaci has ensured that she can live comfortably, but this album shows that Jaci is capable of recording brilliant country music when given the chance.
Incredible singer and I love all the songs February 26, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I LOVE this CD. There is only one song that I am not having as a favorite, but the rest I just love. Buy it.
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