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Reba McEntire: The Last One To Know (MCA)

Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 3 December 1987

AS COUNTRY music's most popular female singer, Reba McEntire deserves a lot of credit for aiding the new-traditionalist revival in Nashville. But tagging McEntire as a traditionalist is misleading, because her last few records have struggled against country's female archetypes.

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