Ronnie Milsap My Life CD

 AN ABSOLUTE MUST-HAVE!!!
It takes more than just pure luck for a 62 year-old visually impaired veteran to still be releasing a major label offing in today's musical culture with its penchant for glamour, youth and looks. Rather, such tenacity is due to the legendary vocal prowess of this multi-Grammy award winner. Vocally, Milsap's is in tip top position: when he dips into his lower registers, there's a haunting swampy blues feel that would make B. B. King proud. And his upper registers rips with operatic ruptures that few country artists are capable of emulating. This may explain why there may be many Haggard and Jones clones, but when it comes to Milsap, he's just peerless. Unlike many fossils of yesteryear who have become contented to revel in past glories, Milsap has enlisted the best of today's songwriters (e.g., Donny Kees, Dean Dillon, Rivers Rutherford, Marc Beeson, Bob Dipero among others) to provide the vehicle that ought to tidal him back into the charts. Produced by Alan Jackson's helmsman Keith Stegall, the backing is fresh and tight, but still bearing Milsap's patented blues-pop sensibilities. When it comes to the songs, there's a paucity of bad tunes, meaning that each of these 11 entries are potential stand alone singles themselves. Best of which is the Dean Dillon, Scotty Emerick and Donny Kees, "If It's Gonna Rain," a George-Strait type of a ballad that has Milsap's perfectly capturing the angst of heartbreak elucidated graphically via the rain motif. "Every Fire," first cut by Restless Heart, continues with the theme of romance at its tail end over an understated yet gorgeous acoustic melody. "Why Can't I," a Bob DiPiero and Karyn Rochelle co-write, finds a frustrated Milsap trying to escape the maze of heartbreak over a wailing wall of fiddles and the lonely missteps of calypso beats. But on the more sanguine cuts, "You Don't Know My Love" bristles with vitality as an enthused Melodie Crittendon adds her beautiful harmonies to Milsap's vocals on this sizzler. While Jeff Silbar and Glen Clark's "Accepts My Love," a self confessing romantic number, is a melodic piece of art at every twist and turn. The infectious lead single "Local Girls" finds Milsap in Kenny-Chesney territory with its Caribbean feel, the perfect scorcher for an all-time summer fun. Yet not all is frivolous, shafts of insights are presented on the propulsive "A Day in the Life of America," a searching satire on the superficiality of Western culture. While Milsap gets as crusty as the deltas in mid-July on the swampy blues of "Somewhere Dry," a flashback to Milsap's previous top 5 bluesy rendition of "Since I Don't Have You." While many artists are monolithic such that they are either a blues singer or straight ahead honky tonker, Milsap's the package deal. Never one to resigned to monotony, there's a bit of everything in "My Life:" rustic cry-your-beer ballads of those Texas honky tonks, rockish pop-country that could give Rascal Flatts a run for their money, and blues-country that not the floods of New Orleans could drown. Every song here has a life of its own and they have been made even richer by Milsap's unmistakable vocals. Even after all these years, Milsap's "My Life" is still picturesque, intriguing and alluring.
Submitted by platinum519 (Windsor, ON, Canada) 
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 GREAT COME BACK
RONNIE'S BACK
Submitted by e.waller (NEW JERSEY) 
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 still got it after all these years!
I've been out of the country music scene for many years. I have been a life-long fan of Ronnie Milsap. This new release is the best I've heard in years. Every song is a story, and touches me in a unique way. The title cut "My Life" had me crying at the first chorus. I have listened to this disc about 20 times , I've only had it for a few days. That should say it all. Keep on burnin Ronnie!
Submitted by Moore89 (Anacoco,La)
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 Ronnie Comes Full Circle!
The recent release from Ronnie Milsap is really a solid album and a attempt for Ronnie to reinvent himself. The album has great songs and Ronnie can still belt out the tunes. All in All a solid country album for country fans both new and old.
Submitted by Jason (Greensboro, NC)
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