Word: leann
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Holiday in Your Heart, on ABC, Dec. 14 at 9 p.m., is a good deal more simplistic than A Christmas Memory, but what can you expect? One is based on a story by Truman Capote, the other on a novel co-written by a 14-year-old, country singer LeAnn Rimes, who stars in the drama as herself. This is truly a heart-toasting affair, as Rimes must choose between seeing her grandmother, who has cancer and may not survive an operation planned for the next day, or making her debut at the Grand Ole Opry. The show features Rimes...
...most popular music format, with the largest number of radio stations and fans all over. But to many music consumers, country remains a quaint taste, one that registers only with the rare fluke hit (remember Achy Breaky Heart, the Macarena of the summer of 1992?) or novelty act (LeAnn Rimes, who was 13 when her yodeling debut album, Blue, rose high on the pop charts last year). Even in the core regions CD sales are flat, and a malaise--or at best, a wait-and-hope--grips the industry. Three of Billboard's top six country albums last week were...
...secret of LeAnn's success is three words: volume (a big voice), volume (three albums in 18 months), volume (saturation marketing by Curb). The new CD--12 songs of inspiration, from The Rose to God Bless America--rarely unleashes Rimes' gloriously freaky soprano; at times she sounds intimidated, like a child called on to sing before stern church elders. Only in an a cappella National Anthem does she let loose the trills and glissandi; but, really, is that a cut you'll want to play...
...because the song calls for it, because the big note she's holding is the only way to express what she's feeling. Higher Ground, unfortunately, is more of a low-lying plateau. It's an album of spiritually oriented "inspirational" songs--a hot genre right now, given LeAnn Rimes' hit collection of similarly themed material. Higher Ground, for its part, is a little too polite. Streisand's at her best on the track On Holy Ground: her voice scales the song, rising above the piano and the organ and the gospel choir, and at the climax hits a decisive...
...LeAnn Rimes. Curb...