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List Price: $3.98 | | Label: Mca Special Products
Salesrank: 875143
Released: October 17, 1990 |
| Our Price: $2.88 |
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| Media: Audio Cassette |
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The Last One to Know Track Listing:
1. Last One to Know
2. Girl Who Has Everything
3. Just Across the Rio Grande
4. I Don't Want to Mention Any Names
5. Someone Else
6. What You Gonna Do About Me
7. I Don't Want to Be Alone
8. Stairs
9. Love Will Find Its Way to You
10. I've Still Got the Love We Made
The Last One to Know Reviews:
THE LAST OF REBA'S TRADITIONAL COUNTRY ALBUMS! 
2005-09-19 - I love this! Everything on here is Reba at her peak! This one ended her run as CMA female vocalist of the year. She never won it again after this was released. But it wasn't because she released this. Its because country music took a trend toward "bubblegum country/pop" and Reba compromised and went with them. That said, this collection is downright superb from first cut to last!! Several had mentioned the song "The Stairs". I will too. It is simply one of the best songs she has ever done!! I also enjoyed the title cut and "I Don't Want to Mention Any Names". In a whole, traditional country music lovers will have a field day with this one!! First class stuff!!
REBA'S "TRADITIONAL COUNTRY" SWAN SONG 
2005-09-12 - This was it folks!! After this offering, Reba compromised what took her to the top and won her the CMA female vocalist of the year award four times, something she never did again. This CD is not as good as "My Kind of Country" or "Have I Got a Deal for You" but certainly is better than ANYTHING she did afterward with the exception of "For My Broken Heart". No one can top McEntire when it comes to singing traditional country music and the tunes here reflect that statement. Beginning with the haunting title track she never misses a beat!! The production values are splendid on this CD as well with Reba not overdoing her "trademark triple and quadruple syllable phrasing". Also excellent cuts are "Just Across the Rio Grande", "What You Gonna Do About Me" and "I Don't Want to Mention Any Names". "The Girl Who Has Everything", "Someone Else" "I Don't Want to Be Alone" and "I've Still Got the Love We Made" are very good as well. The highlight of the CD is the song "The Stairs", Reba's homage to the battered woman afraid to leave her husband. This track is superb and should have been released as a single!!! This song alone is worth the entire CD!! The only discordant note in this CD and the one that prevents me from giving this CD a five star rating is the inclusion of "Love Will Find Its Way to You". Not that it isn't a good song, it is and Reba is in fine form in it. But it is like a fish out of water amongst the rest of the traditional sounding tunes. "Love Will Find...." is Reba's first entry into the foray of "Bubblegum Pop" which, sadly, doesn't distinguish her from anyone else. The song would have been more appropriate on any of the other CDs she released after this one because it would fit in with her decision to "do what sells". I can't believe its been almost 20 years since this CD was released and since Reba has done a project of entirely "traditional country" replete with steel, fiddles and soaring vocals. I keep praying she'll come "home" again someday, but, I don't think it will ever happen. So I'll just have to be content to listen to everything she put out until 1987, with the exception of course of "For My Broken Heart" which I consider a masterpiece.
Emotional traditional country not for faint hearts
2003-09-15 - This is among my favorite Reba albums and is one of her most traditional sounding albums. Reba was going through a bad time emotionally. Her marriage was on the rocks and broke up soon afterwards. It shows in this album.
What you gonna do about me is about impending divorce, although I don't think it was about her own. It is sung from the perspective of a child. The stairs is about a battered wife who lies to cover up the fact that she is constantly beaten. Just across the Rio Grande (also recorded by Holly Dunn) is another emotional song about the divide between Mexico and the USA.
There are lighter moments here, as on Love will find its way to you, but the songs that linger longest in the memory are the sad songs. With this album more than any other, Reba showed that she could match Dolly and Tammy in the emotional stakes.
real life relationship problem
2002-02-07 - I do not know of anyone who tackles with such intensity and real life experience as she does in this recording. It is especially gratifying to hear the single The Stair which aptly depict the emotional struggle that a real survivor is dealing with in abusive relationship.
Everyone should own this one
2001-10-11 - Reba is without doubt the QUEEN of country and the cd is proof.The songs touch your heart and you can relate to every song in one way or another.Whether your a huge country fan or have never listened to country before you'll love this cd and it will leave you wanting to hear more.
