Faith Hill: It Matters to Me (Warner Bros. 9 A5872)
Geoffrey Himes, Country Music, November 1995
TO MENTION the similarities between Linda Ronstadt and the new crop of female country singers — Trisha Yearwood, Faith Hill, Pam Tillis, Martina McBride and the like — is merely to point out the obvious. Once California country-rock had taken over commercial Nashville, it was inevitable that the "Sweetheart of Rodeo Drive" would become the model for a new generation of women.
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