Shania Twain Up! CD

UP! includes 2 CDs: a "red" disc featuring a pop-electric mix plus a second "green" disc featuring a country-acoustic mix of the same tracks.
Personnel includes: Shania Twain (vocals); Jon Willis (acoustic guitar, banjo, bouzouki, mandolin); Heitor Perreira (acoustic, electric & Spanish guitar, mandolin); Michael Thompson (electric guitar, slide guitar, bouzouki); Brent Mason (electric guitar); Cory Churko (slide guitar); Paul Franklin (pedal steel); Jonathan Yudkin (mandolin, violin, cello); Irish Film Orchestra, The Leahy's (strings); Simon & Diamond Duggal (percussion).
Includes liner notes by Shania Twain.
UP! was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Country Album. "Forever And For Always" was nominated for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and for Best Country Song.
Personnel includes: Shania Twain (vocals); Jon Willis (acoustic guitar, banjo, bouzouki, mandolin); Heitor Perreira (acoustic, electric & Spanish guitar, mandolin); Michael Thompson (electric guitar, slide guitar, bouzouki); Brent Mason (electric guitar); Cory Churko (slide guitar); Paul Franklin (pedal steel); Jonathan Yudkin (mandolin, violin, cello); Irish Film Orchestra, The Leahy's (strings); Simon & Diamond Duggal (percussion).
UP! was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Country Album. "Forever And For Always" was nominated for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and for Best Country Song.
Personnel includes: Shania Twain (vocals); Jon Willis (acoustic guitar, banjo, bouzouki, mandolin); Heitor Perreira (acoustic, electric & Spanish guitar, mandolin); Michael Thompson (electric guitar, slide guitar, bouzouki); Brent Mason (electric guitar); Cory Churko (slide guitar); Paul Franklin (pedal steel); Jonathan Yudkin (mandolin, violin, cello); Irish Film Orchestra, The Leahy's (strings); Simon & Diamond Duggal (percussion).
UP! was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Country Album. "Forever And For Always" was nominated for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and for Best Country Song.
UP! includes 2 CDs: a "red" disc featuring a pop-electric mix plus a second
"green" disc featuring a country-acoustic mix of the same tracks.
This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.
Personnel includes: Shania Twain (vocals); Jon Willis (acoustic guitar,
banjo, bouzouki, mandolin); Heitor Perreira (acoustic, electric & Spanish
guitar, mandolin); Michael Thompson (electric guitar, slide guitar,
bouzouki); Brent Mason (electric guitar); Cory Churko (slide guitar); Paul
Franklin (pedal steel); Jonathan Yudkin (mandolin, violin, cello); Irish Film
Orchestra, The Leahy's (strings); Simon & Diamond Duggal (percussion).
Includes liner notes by Shania Twain.
UP! was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Country Album. "Forever And For Always" was nominated for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and for Best Country Song.
When Up! was released in November 2002, Shania Twain revealed in one of many promotional interviews that she writes far more songs than can fit on her records and that she hides any personal, introspective songs she pens, not even playing them for her husband and collaborator Robert John "Mutt" Lange. Now, this is certainly a psychological quirk worth exploring, but it also suggests why Twain's albums are such brilliant pieces of mainstream pop. Anything that doesn't fit the mold is discarded, so the album can hum along on its big, polished, multipurpose hooks and big, sweeping emotions. This is Super-Size pop, as outsized and grandiose as good pop should be. And, unlike the work of most pop divas, where the subject matter is firmly about the singer, none of the songs on Up! are remotely about Shania Twain, the person -- let's face it, she's never faced a situation like "Waiter! Bring Me Water!," where she's afraid her guy is going to be stolen away by their hot waitress. No, these songs have been crafted as universal anthems,Rolling Stone (1/23/03, p.66) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...No duds, and no dull bits..."
Rolling Stone (1/23/03, p.66) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...No duds, and no dull bits..."
Rolling Stone (1/23/03, p.66) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...No duds, and no dull bits..."
Rolling Stone (1/23/03, p.66) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...No duds, and no dull bits..."
Entertainment Weekly (12/6/02, pp.92-3) - "...UP! is like ABBA GOLD without all the melancholy..."
Entertainment Weekly (12/6/02, pp.92-3) - "...UP! is like ABBA GOLD without all the melancholy..."
Entertainment Weekly (12/6/02, pp.92-3) - "...UP! is like ABBA GOLD without all the melancholy..."
Entertainment Weekly (12/6/02, pp.92-3) - "...UP! is like ABBA GOLD without all the melancholy..."