Next Big Thing Music Cd

Vince Gill - Next Big Thing

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Next Big Thing      Artist : Vince Gill      List Price : $13.98 USD        Your Price : $9.97 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2003-02-11      Studio : Mca Nashville      Label : Mca Nashville      Avg. Customer Rating : (29 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Next Big Thing      Can't go wrong with Vince!      Rating:      The c.d is great! It came quickly thru the mail and I love it! Vince has such a gift and his voice is just pure sunshine for my soul.! Thank-you!     Customer Reviews for Next Big Thing Cd      Some songs are stellar and others are okay      Rating:      That pretty much sums up The Next Big Thing. I think Vince could use an assistant producer in addition to himself because not all of his songs are 5 star like before when Tony Brown used to produce him. Vince Gill isn't a bad producer, but it is hard to remain objective when you are your own producer. This day in age, Pam Tillis has been the only country star to successfully produce her own music with brilliant results. I really like Whipporwill River, the title track and a Young Man's Town the best. I think 17 tracks is too much because I can think of some songs that could have either been trimmed off or be modified. But, I think that Vince has written some of the best songs of his career because they show newfound insight and maturity. As a young artist, I look up to that. Editorial Reviews for Next Big Thing Audio Cd      Amazon.com      Having earned respect for creating mainstream country that proudly maintains a deep vein of traditional elements, Vince Gill draws from a broader palette on this unusually lengthy offering of originals and collaborations. Honoring styles that inspired him, he zigzags from rockabilly (the opening title track) to the Beatle-esque ballad "Someday" (cowritten with Richard Marx) into unfettered traditionalism on the shuffle "Without You," the majestic "Two Hearts," and the Merle Haggard tribute "Real Mean Bottle." His philosophical "Young Man's Town" could easily be a commentary on today's Nashville. While he could have dropped a couple of the more-mundane numbers (especially the clichéd cantina ditty "We Had It All"), he projects the same clean consistency that's marked all his work. True, he takes few risks, but then the cutting edge was never his chosen place. And as the album's sole producer, he shows better sense than most current Nashville producers. Gill, the omnipresent guest harmony singer on so many others' records, used surprisingly few guests himself, which keeps the focus where it belongs. --Rich Kienzle