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Track Listing
1. I Want to Live Again
2. It's Alright
3. Believe Me Baby (I Lied)
4. I Need You
5. Little Hercules
6. Under the Rainbow
7. Everybody Knows
8. Hello, I'm Gone
9. Maybe It's Love
10. Lover Is Forever, A
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Trisha Yearwood (vocals); Billy Joe Walker, Jr., Biff Watson, Bobby All, Steuart Smith, Fred Knobloch, Dan Dugmore, Paul Franklin, Brent Mason (guitars); David Davidson (violin); Rob Hajacos, Aubrey Haynie (fiddle); Kris Wilkinson (viola); John Catchings (cello); Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson (harmonica); Fats Kaplan (accordion); Matt Rollings (piano, organ); Steve Nathan (organ, keyboards); Sam Bacco (marimba, congas, shakers, cymbals, clavei, dumbek); Leland Sklar, Dave Pomeroy (bass); Eddie Bayers, Owen Hale (drums); Tom Roady (tambourine); Andrea Zonn, Dennis Wilson, Raul Malo, Cindy Richardson-Walker, Garth Fundis, Kim Richey, Matraca Berg, Harry Stinson, Mac McAnally, Becky Priest, Vince Gill (background vocals).
Recorded at Sound Emporium and Sound Stage, Nashville, Tennessee.
All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.
EVERYBODY KNOWS was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Country Album. "Believe Me Baby (I Lied)" was nominated for 1997 Grammys for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song.
Trisha Yearwood makes perfect country-rock radio singles, with stinging electric-guitar riffs, sighing pedal-steel leads, lilting dashes of rock piano and organ, and choruses a young Linda Ronstadt would have paid the Devil handsomely for. All of which would be as meaningless as any other cowgirl's latest studio project if not for Yearwood's steadfast refusal to be a cowgirl at all. EVERYBODY KNOWS, her sixth album, is filled with songs about nice young boys who grew up to be corporate tyrants ("Little Hercules") or couch potatoes ("I Need You"), and nice young girls who have finally figured out how to move on ("I Want To Live Again," "Hello, I'm Gone").
This is anything but stand-by-your-man country, and it ends with a stunning, piercing folk-rock song, "A Lover Is Forever" (written by Steve Goodman and Fred Knobloch, and previously recorded by Rosanne Cash), in which the other woman in a man's life excoriates him for settling for the wife he already has. The message here isn't break up the family. It's something much more powerful and complicated: Don't renege on your love.
Industry Reviews
...a mix of country-pop, big hooks, and over-the-top MOR ballads. Yearwood's getting better at conveying nuance, but it's still her knowing soprano...that rings Nashville's chimes. - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (09/06/1996)
3 Stars (out of 5) - ...Big of voice but nothing too rural-sounding, Yearwood occupies a patch not dissimilar to that of Mary Chapin Carpenter: here rock and country kind of merge....a fine and very believable interpreter of others' songs...
Q (12/01/1996)
...a mix of country-pop, big hooks, and over-the-top MOR ballads. Yearwood's getting better at conveying nuance, but it's still her knowing soprano...that rings Nashville's chimes.
Entertainment Weekly (09/06/1996)
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