Keep On Loving You | ||||
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Studio album by Reba | ||||
Released | August 18, 2009 | |||
Recorded | 2009 (Nashville, TN) | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 48:28 | |||
Label | Starstruck/Valory | |||
Producer | Tony Brown, Mark Bright, Reba McEntire | |||
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Singles from Keep on Loving You | ||||
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Allmusic | |
Slant Magazine | |
Los Angeles Times | (Positive) |
Entertainment Weekly | (B-) |
The New York Times | (Positive) |
The Boston Globe | (Positive) |
Keep On Loving You is the twenty-fifth studio album by American country artist, Reba McEntire. The album was released August 18, 2009 on Starstruck/Valory and on Humphead Records in the UK, and was produced by Tony Brown, Mark Bright, and McEntire.
Keep On Loving You is McEntire's first solo studio album in six years, since the release of 2003's Room to Breathe and her first for the Valory label (in conjunction with her company, Starstruck Entertainment). In 2008, she exited her label of twenty five years, MCA Nashville after the release of Reba: Duets (2007). The album contains "Strange," which is the highest-debuting single of McEntire's career, as well as the hit single "Consider Me Gone," McEntire's first Number One hit since "Somebody" in August 2004. The album's third single, the title track, was released in February 2010 and has become a Top Ten hit on the country charts.
Despite changing labels, McEntire remains with Universal Music Group (which controls her entire catalog including her Mercury Nashville years), as Valory's parent label, Big Machine Records, is distributed by Universal.
Keep On Loving You was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee in early 2009 and consists of thirteen tracks. The eighth track, "She's Turning 50 Today" was co-written by McEntire herself, as well as Liz Hengber and Tommy Lee James. Many of the album's songs had previously been recorded by other country music artists. "I Want a Cowboy", was originally recorded by Katrina Elam on her self-titled debut album and "Pink Guitar" was recorded by Jasmine Rae on her debut album Look It Up. "Eight Crazy Hours" was recorded by Shelly Fairchild on her debut album Ride, and "Nothing to Lose" was recorded by Trisha Yearwood in 2007 on her Greatest Hits release.