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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Bna Entertainment
Salesrank: 3616
Released: October 31, 2006 |
| Our Price: $6.86 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Small Town Girl Track Listing:
1. Red High Heels
2. Gotta Keep Moving
3. Things That Never Cross A Man's Mind
4. Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You
5. I Wonder
6. Small Town Girl
7. Wild Ponies
8. Girls Like Me
9. I'm On My Way
10. One Of The Guys
11. My Angel
Editorial Review:
This debut album by the small-town girl with the big, powerhouse voice showcases two distinctly different sides of Kellie Pickler's music. The hard-riffing uptempo material recalls the heartland rock of Bob Seger and John Mellencamp, with Pickler providing a good-ole-girl twang. Among the highlights are the emancipated strut of "Red High Heels," the playful humor of "Things That Never Cross a Man's Mind," and the tomboy bluesiness of "One of the Guys." Yet the American Idol finalist turns pure diva on the over-the-top balladry of the album's other half, with swelling strings and arrangements that overpower rather than enhance "I Wonder" and "I'm on My Way." On such cuts, producer Blake Chancey (Dixie Chicks) never gives Pickler a chance to show the subtlety and nuance that makes music more an art than a competition. --Don McLeese
Small Town Girl Reviews:
Great career starting freshman cd 
2009-12-06 - Great first CD release from the now famous Kellie Pickler. Many singles released from this cd. Great songs.
small town girl with a big heart and voice 
2009-12-04 - I have both of Kellie's cd's, i was hooked when i heard red high heels and i wonder. Her voice is clean and strong. i'm very fussy about the songs i put on my portable mp3 player and i wonder made it. this song sends shivers up and down my spine, it is a classic to be cherished, great work kellie, look forward to your next cd. This cd is defenitly worth buying.
Love Kellie Pickler!
2009-06-26 - A great CD...got one for myself and one as a "grab-gift" for a party we were invited to attend!
Tired 
2009-06-12 - This is a good example of what "country" music has sunk to - pop/rock with a slide guitar. Ms. Pickler is no better, and no worse, than dozens of other wannabees who seem to think a whine qualifies them as a country singer. As far as the material goes, well, it matches the artist in quality and authenticity.
An almost unqualified mess - with decent sound.
Country Done Right : Better than Any Carrie Underwood Record
2009-06-02 - When country music is done right, you just know. Brad Paisley and Keith Urban are prime examples of songwriters who can take a song and elevate it to another realm entirely, and in the female realm I can only think of Dolly Parton and Reba McEntire. To that elite list, I shall now add Kellie Pickler, an American Idol contestant who has consistently delivered one solid vocal after the other - this is her debut album, and quite frankly, I found this a whole lot better than those two screechy Carrie Underwood records. Seriously, "Carnival Ride" was just painful, and there is something about Carrie's voice that I just cannot stand to listen. And lets not even start on Taylor Swift, a non-artist if there ever was one.
Kellie, on the other hand, relies on impeccable vocal delivery and some really beautiful lyrics - all of which make even her 'filler' songs sound truly novel and fresh. Prime example is the standout "Gotta Keep Moving", which should have been a single. This is the perfect example of what a country single in the 2000s should sound like. Among her contemporaries I can only count Miranda Lambert as halfway talented, though Lambert has certain dry and lifeless songs in her catalog, unlike Pickler.
What I especially appreciate about this album is that it really lets the singers' voice take center stage, unlike Underwood and Swifts' records. This is a boon to those of us who like unadulterated human voices that can sing - I've never been a listener of over-produced country - one reason why Toby Keith, Julianne Hough or even Rascal Flatts never quite appealed to me.
Like Lee Ann Womacks' sensational "Theres More Where That Came From" album (which embraced the classic country genre), this is an album that works as a perfect marriage between the 'old' guard and the new world of country music. For that alone, Pickler should be commended. On songs such as "Im On My Way", you get the feeling that the only formula for a hit record is a beautiful tune that is sung just right. Finally, we have a country artist who can do that in spades.
Five Stars. A must-have country record that deserves far more recognition.
