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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Mca
Salesrank: 49773
Released: November 18, 2003 |
| Our Price: $3.63 |
| Used Price: $1.16 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Room to Breathe Track Listing:
1. Secret
2. If I Had Any Sense Left at All
3. My Sister
4. Once You've Learned to Be Lonely
5. Moving Oleta
6. Love Revival
7. He Gets That From Me
8. I'm Gonna Take That Mountain
9. Room to Breathe
10. Sky Full of Angels
11. Somebody
12. It Just Had to Be This Way
Editorial Review:
Reba McEntire's first album in four years finds the spunky redhead (and sitcom star) thinking like a singer again. Where she'd virtually burned out, doing too many albums a year, she's now thoughtful about her material, updating her repertoire with the hill-country radio hit, "I'm Gonna Take That Mountain," while also drawing on the kinds of meaty ballads that propelled her to diva-ness. If "Moving Oleta," a nursing home tale of love, is too squishy a topic for most folks, McEntire seems to be saying that it's high time we looked unflinchingly at a full range of relationships beyond the standard romantic fare. To that end, there's the woman-to-woman song, "My Sister," the pained adoption tale of "Secret," and the bittersweet "He Gets That From Me," a tribute to families who lost loved ones on 9/11. By the time McEntire mixes in some uptempo dance tunes, a gospel number, and a straight-country waltz, she's delivered an album that's a combination of all of the types of music she's recorded over the past 25 years. Thankfully she keeps her trademark vocal curlicues to a minimum, which allows guests Alison Krauss, Union Station vocalist/guitarist Dan Tyminski, and Vince Gill to sweeten the sound. But it's really all Reba, in a very classy return. --Alanna Nash
Room to Breathe Reviews:
first CD in 4 years 
2007-07-15 - This is Reba's First CD in four years and it was a long awaited project. The first single "I'm Gonna Take That Mountain" is very upbeat and about how she can take anything on and get it done. The 2nd single "Somebody" is my favorite track on the CD. It is a very beautiful love story about a man who talks to a woman about all of his troubles with relationships and they both do not realize that they are falling in love with each other day by day until one day they meet eye to eye and they finally realize it.
The 3rd single "He Gets That From Me" is about a son that has characteristics of his father and mother. You do not know what happened to the dad in the video until the very end when they go to the graveyard to visit the father's grave. Breath taking video if you ask me and is also very sad. The 4th single "My Sister" is about 2 sisters that are best friends but are miles apart and they call each other from time to time. 2 other songs on this CD that are moving are "Moving Oleta" and "Sky Full Of Angels"
EXCELLENT!!!!
2007-02-06 - Okay, I'm not 13 OKAY?! I'm 16, just doin' this so it will be a whole lot quicker! Year born: 91! (proof enough????)
*Okay anyway... I absolutely love this album. The particular song that I absolutely love is "Secret" I can totally relate to it. I was gave up for adoption... so put two and two together and there ya go ;)
Anyone who wants a GREAT album, with the greatest Country-Western female singer since Pasty Cline then this is definitely the perfect one for ya!
A BIG IMPROVEMENT OVER HER NINETIES STUFF 
2005-10-24 - She needed a breather. After all, she had too many irons in the fire what with Broadway (a sham....) and her Hollywood phase (Reba is no actress, sorry). But she is a darn good singer and this CD, despite one of the most unflattering CD covers that has ever graced her CDs, shows that Reba, when given great material to work with can still deliver the goods. Not all the songs are first rate though. If they were, I'd be giving this CD 5 stars instead of 3. "Secret" which heads off the record has some good lyrics but a terrible melody. Same with "My Sister". But things improve with "If I Had Any Sense Left at All", "Once You've Learned to Be Lonely" and "Sky Full of Angels". I could have done without "Love Revival". "He Gets that From Me" is good but not memorable. The duet with Vince Gill is good too but not up to par with "Oklahoma Swing" or "The Heart Won't Lie". "Moving Oleta" and "Room to Breathe" are the two best cuts on here but their melodies and arrangements are almost identical. "Somebody" was a number one single for her and its growing on me slowly but surely. All in all this is a big improvement over most of the stuff she put out in the nineties which was some of the worst music I ever heard.
BETTER THAN ANYTHING SHE'S DONE SINCE "FOR MY BROKEN HEART" 
2005-10-16 - This CD is quite good, especially since Reba product of the mid to late nineties is quite bad. This one has only one bad song on it..."Secret"....the lyrics are good but what good are lyrics if the melody has no substance and the production are mediocre?? The rest of the CD is substantial with quite a few outstanding cuts on here! "If I Had Any Sense", "Room to Breathe", "Somebody" and especially "Moving Oleta" are all great! The highlight are Reba's bluegrass tunes "I'm Gonna Take that Mountain" and I especially love "Sky Full of Angels" (my favorite song on the CD). Its great!
MOST OF THE BALLADS ARE GOOD!
2005-10-14 - This is one of Reba's better efforts of her later career. The prize of the pack in this package is the song "Moving Oleta" which is her testament to "Alzheimer's". The song made me cry! The ballads "If I Had any Sense Left at All", "Once You've Learned to Be Lonely" and especially "Room to Breathe" (which is poignantly touching as well are finely executed as Reba does not go into severe vocal pyrotechnic that rob the listener of her appeal. The song "Somebody", a number one single for Reba is slowly growing on me. The song "Love Revival" is a song that should have been left off the CD. It does nothing for Reba or for me. Same goes for the song "Secret" which is "formulaic typical Pop Reba". The duet with Vince Gill is good. There are two bluegrass tunes on here "Sky Full of Angels" and "I'm Gonna Climb that Mountain" but the arrangements are way too far out and they intrude on the flow of the CD. (Allison Kraus or Patty Loveless would have done way better on these than Reba does here). The last song is "My Sister" which has decent lyrics but a terrible arrangement and melody.
