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There You'll Be: The Very Best Of Faith Hill  >>

After immeasurable success in the US, Faith Hill finally comes to Europe and There You'll Be is a sort of catch-up for the best bits we may have missed along the way (or in other words, a greatest hits collection for the un-initiated). A dozen songs which map the path of the Georgia singer, it includes the massive hit for which she has come to be known over here, "There You'll Be" from the Pearl Harbor soundtrack together with some pop anthems like "The Way You Love Me (Love to Infinity Mix)". However, the style she delivers most convincingly is that of her roots in country with "Let Me Let Go", "Piece of my Heart" and "You Give me Love" from the earlier albums being the clear highlights of this collection. --Gunther Matejka

Cry  >>

With her big voice and soaring melodies, Faith Hill is seen in the UK as a cross between Celine Dion and Shania Twain. But musically speaking (and based upon the evidence on Cry), she's far more intriguing than either. Though often concentrating on power ballads (the title track here is another storming example), this Nashville resident has managed to combine country, rock, pop and contemporary R&B into an eminently consumable package.

Cry sees Hill move into Twain territory, or rather that of Twain's husband and producer Mutt Lange. With the songs such as "One", "If This Is the End" and "I Think I Will", she employs the sweeping guitars and massive melodrama of prime-time Foreigner (one of Lange's earlier successes). In fact, she even ups the ante with her superb backing vocals, "Back to You" in particular possessing an overlapping series of brilliant melodies. There are let-downs: "Beautiful" has Faith spilling spoken-word goo over a Clapton-style guitar solo, "Unsaveable" and "Baby You Belong" are rock throwaways, and "This Is Me" features the fabulously ignorant line "I'm just like everybody else / I try to love Jesus and myself." But all in all this very well produced album is as good as today's mainstream gets. --Dominic Wills

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