Rita Wilson
| Rita Wilson
Rita Wilson
Wilson sings about getting her friends together and turning her living room into a nightclub. The album s best moments are its most personal: Crying Crying is a powerful reflection on her recent fight against breast cancer which recalls classic Carole King in its stately resilience; the chilling, stripped-down Still Gone is a remembrance of loved ones who ve passed away. Wilson also pays respect to a bedrock musical influence on the haunting piano ballad Joni, but at its best, Rita Wilson, she goes beyond honoring tradition to create something all her own. - Rolling Stone
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Spectrum Culture
Essentially, actors and actresses make albums simply because they can. Should they? Well, that’s certainly a matter well open to and for debate.
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All Music
Rita Wilson is a rare example of an album that's meant to be an honest work of personal expression and a bid for larger commercial success at the same time, and if Wilson's ambitions for pop stardom seem unlikely, well, at first no one thought that movie she produced about a Big Fat Greek Wedding was going to be a hit, either.
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Grand Ole Opry
Showcases her skill for creating insightful, eloquent singer-songwriter pop music that is etched with stunning honesty.
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Wadsworth Library
Wilson's self-titled new album, her second, not only marks the singer and actress's debut as a songwriter, it also showcases her knack for creating insightful, eloquent singer-songwriter pop that is etched with stunning honesty.
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JS Online
She expresses her passion with surprising lightness, even when co-writing every song on her second album. Admittedly, co-writers include Adele favorite Dan Wilson and Sugarland's Kristian Bush, but their professionalism blends well with her beginner's enthusiasm, and she rarely strains her pleasurably nasal voice to make a point.
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FYE
Much of Rita Wilson sounds like an unlikely cross between Sheryl Crow and Shania Twain who isn't afraid to reveal her age, and if Wilson's voice isn't quite as strong as either of those artists, she's savvy enough to know where she can or can't push the notes.
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