MCA Records
1985
Have I Got a Deal for You
About This Album
During its first decade, Reba McEntire's career had a "two steps forward, one step back" quality to it, even though she kept doggedly progressing, year by year. In 1984, her two big steps forward came with her surprise win as Female Vocalist of the Year at the Country Music Association (CMA) awards and the release of her bid to join the new traditionalist movement, My Kind of Country. Her next album, Have I Got a Deal for You, released nine months later, constituted another step back, if only a slight one. On My Kind of Country, McEntire had eschewed the Nashville publishing houses for the most part to pick old songs previously recorded as LP tracks by the likes of Connie Smith and Faron Young, which she then sang as if she were Patsy Cline reincarnated. The topping on the cake was Harlan Howard's newly written song of divorce-in-the-making, "Somebody Should Leave." On Have I Got a Deal for You, McEntire, who co-produced the album with MCA label president Jimmy Bowen, went back to the publishers for new songs. She stuck to the traditional country arrangements, but with a bit more variation; leadoff track "I'm in Love All Over" was an up-tempo number in the style of the Bakersfield sound, for example, while "I Don't Need Nothin' You Ain't Got" was given a Western swing treatment.
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