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List Price: $5.98 | | Label: EMI Special Products
Salesrank: 121386
Released: October 20, 1998 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Everything's Gonna Be Alright Track Listing:
1. You Still Shake Me
2. Ruby Brown
3. Absence of the Heart
4. Brand New Key
5. Michelangelo Sky
6. People Miss Planes
7. Never Comin' Down
8. Make up Your Mind
9. Colour Everywhere
10. Angels Working Overtime
11. Dickson County
12. Train Song
13. Everything's Gonna Be Alright
Editorial Review:
Even within the pop landscape of today's mainstream country, Deana Carter's follow-up to her blockbuster Capitol debut surprises. Carter and co-producer Chris Farren demonstrate an uncanny instinct for hits: These 13 songs--five of which were co-written by Carter---tour through Top 40s of many decades and genres. The musical and lyrical variety--rather than Carter's singing, which is breezy, not bold--is her strong suit. "You Still Shake Me" marries ZZ Top and raunchy Hank Jr., while "Never Comin' Down" has a sly, soul groove and wah-wah guitar that sounds like Bobbie Gentry swinging to Sheryl Crow. "Absence of the Heart" has flashes of Crystal Gayle at her torchiest, while "Angels Working Overtime," Carter's best vocal performance, has hip-hop style percussion, big, Mellancamp-esque acoustic guitars, and the bubbly, laughing voices of children--and somehow the pop dazzle doesn't swamp the intense narrative. Carter isn't making country music, but her confections can be delightful, even ambitious, pop stuff.
Description of Everything's Gonna Be Alright:
Even within the pop landscape of today's mainstream country, Deana Carter's follow-up to her blockbuster Capitol debut surprises. Carter and co-producer Chris Farren demonstrate an uncanny instinct for hits: These 13 songs--five of which were co-written by Carter---tour through Top 40s of many decades and genres. The musical and lyrical variety--rather than Carter's singing, which is breezy, not bold--is her strong suit. "You Still Shake Me" marries ZZ Top and raunchy Hank Jr., while "Never Comin' Down" has a sly, soul groove and wah-wah guitar that sounds like Bobbie Gentry swinging to Sheryl Crow. "Absence of the Heart" has flashes of Crystal Gayle at her torchiest, while "Angels Working Overtime," Carter's best vocal performance, has hip-hop style percussion, big, Mellancamp-esque acoustic guitars, and the bubbly, laughing voices of children--and somehow the pop dazzle doesn't swamp the intense narrative. Carter isn't making country music, but her confections can be delightful, even ambitious, pop stuff. --Roy Kasten
Everything's Gonna Be Alright Reviews:
It really is alright! 
2007-04-05 - This is a good CD that is enjoyable to listen to. The songs are interesting. I love the remake of Melanie's hit, "Brand new key".
A fascinating album though not Deana's best 
2005-07-19 - Deana's career has certainly had some ups and downs. She began with an album (Did I shave my legs for this) that her American record label refused to release - but, somewhat surprisingly, managed to get a UK release. Deana continued searching for songs while writing some of her own. Eventually, she got an American release with an album also titled Did I shave my legs for this, but it was a very different album from the earlier UK release, with only the title track and two others appearing on both. The American album included Strawberry wine, a song that the record label reluctantly released as a single. It became popular among country fans, who proceeded in their millions to buy the album, whose sales were further helped by other hits such as We danced anyway. After such a phenomenally successful album, Deana's future suddenly seemed bright. Then the follow-up album (this one) appeared. Airplay and sales were disappointing and the record label dropped Deana. So is this album so bad? No - it sold a fair number of copies by normal standards but nowhere near what everybody hoped for.
The problem (if there is one) is that Deana didn't want to stick to a formula, preferring to do something a little different. Of course, it's one thing for an established star to change style from one album to another - it's quite another for somebody to do so with just two albums to her name and only one that most people knew about. In general, the songs here are less instantly appealing than those on Deana's previous albums, but they grow with repeated listening. Among the songs is a cover of Brand new key, the seventies classic written and originally recorded in 1971 by Melanie. With the singles from the album not doing as well as hoped, it may be the most recognizable song on the album.
Apart from Brand new key, all the songs are originals except the title track, which Deana's father wrote in 1971. The opening track (You still shake me) is slightly quirky (like several songs here) but I love it -it's about how Deana feels about a former lover. She doesn't want him back but she clearly has a soft spot for him. The next song (Ruby Brown) is about a woman who has vanished. The next song (Absence of the heart) is about a relationship that's gone cold. After that and Brand new sky comes a very romantic song (Michelangelo sky).
Next is another song (People miss planes) with an inconclusive ending, just like Ruby Brown. In this song, a woman decides she's had enough of her man and heads for the airport. She gets there but does she board that plane or turn back? You can decide for yourself how it ended. Next is a song (Never coming down) about a woman waiting for - and finding - true love. Then comes a song (Make up your mind) about a woman's impatience with a man. Maybe she gets the answer she wants, for the next song (Color everywhere) is really happy. Next is a song (Angels working overtime) about a baby who is dumped by her mother who feels unable to look after her.
Next is a song (Dickson county) about a woman wanting revenge. The next song (The train song) has strange lyrics but features vocal backing by Lynyrd Skynyrd. The title track closes the album in a reassuring manner.
This may not be as good as Deana's earlier albums, even after allowing for the need to let it grow through repeat plays, but it has a fascination all of its own.
Better than the debut but less commercial 
2005-05-19 - It's obvious why this wasn't as big a hit as her debut "Did I Shave My Legs for This?": Carter isn't sticking as closely to the Nashville formula and radio wasn't as quick to embrace it. That's too bad because while the heights on this one might not be as big as "Strawberry Wine" from the first disc, it's a better listen as a whole.
On this one, Carter stretches her stylistic legs and allows plenty of influences in: a bit of funk wah-wah guitar ("Never Comin' Down"), hip-hop drums ("Angels Working Overtime"), 70s pop (her countrified cover of Melanie's "Brand New Key"), even latter day Beatles (the "Penny Lane" horn break in "The Train Song").
HIGHLIGHTS:
"Absence of the Heart" details the embers of love turning to ash. ("We live together separately/We don't wanna fall apart/But every time we kiss, there's an emptiness/An absence of the heart.."). The bouncy bongo driven "Michelango Sky" finds Carter finding her soulmate in a man who sees the same shapes in clouds as she does. "People Miss Planes" was a natural single that was left unreleased. (Maybe they didn't want to release 2 ballads back to back?) The song is a showdown at the airport between a woman ready to leave and the man who's there to try and talk her out of it. (He said "People miss planes"/"It happens all the time"/"They cancel their plans, they change their minds") Carter's own "Dickson County" uses the same theme as Mindy McCreedy's "10,000 Angels"..hoping for the strength to keep an ex-flame away. The writing is good, but there's not a "big hook" to get it radio play.
LOWS:
"Never Comin' Down" is a great 'coulda been' single, but it just plain goes on too long. The false fade is pretty cool, but she could easily have trimmed a minute off this song and improved it. While I agree "Color Everywhere" would probably have been a successful single, it's fairly formulaic and uninteresting. Perfect forgettable radio fodder. The title track just plods along without gathering much interest. I'm not sure why she named the album after that one. (Maybe because "Absence of the Heart" is too easy a mark for nasty record critics?)
BOTTOM LINE:
It's fairly average modern country but Carter has a nice voice and she's making progress. Maybe next time out she can come up with some stronger material and a solid hit or two to get radio's attention back.
AS MANY HITS AS A LEANN GREATEST CD
2005-05-06 - or Shania for that matter. This is nothing less than a 5 star country album (to the pop side though not as much as Shania).
Listen to the clips-it is rare to find so little filler (how much do the dixie chicks utilize!) Enjoy!
A Solid Album
2004-08-12 - "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" was Deana Carter's second Capitol album and the Follow-up to her first, which featured her terrific single "Strawberry Wine".
Though there is no "new" Strawberry Wine on this album, it's still a very good with many strong tracks.
Matraca Berg who wrote "Strawberry Wine" ( with Gary Harrison ) contributes two songs to this album, both among this album's best tracks; especially "Ruby Brown"
Her version of Melanie's "Brand New Key" is also pretty charming; she gives the song a so completely different treatment from Melanie that it's almost like a new song.
The highlights me though are the thoughtful "People Miss Trains" and "Angels Working Overtime" - one of the most rocking tunes with a great rhythm and great vocals; a Sheryl Crow type song - when she's at her best.
"Make Up Your Mind" is another good song.
Though a few songs are probably a little lightweight, there is enough quality material to call this another solid album, showing that Deana Carter can handle different styles ( rock - pop . country ) with great conviction.
