Rhonda Hanson - Words & Music

Monday 1st September 2003
Rhonda Hanson - Words & Music
Rhonda Hanson - Words & Music

STYLE: Pop
RATING 4 4 4 4
OUR PRODUCT CODE: 7624-7382
LABEL: Independent
FORMAT: CD Album

Reviewed by David Faulkner

I like reflective female singer/songwriters. So I should enjoy Rhonda Hanson's 1997 debut on the dubiously-named War Machine Records. Plenty of big names do: Ricky Skaggs and the late Mark Heard encouraged her to record, Kelly Willard and Harlan Rogers appear on the CD. We're talking piano-led American AOR music sung in a voice reminiscent of Kim Carnes. But the lyrics veer between the pedestrian and the banal. Rhyming "how very sad" with "how very bad" won't do. The nadir is a song where Hanson apparently couldn't count on her dog Rover, but she could count on the Lord - well, this dog-loving reviewer is struggling for kind words. Hanson needs a writing partner if her music is to shine.

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Reader Comments

Posted by Karen Gregory in California @ 03:15 on Sep 14 2006

Rhonda's words and music minister to me...and that
means alot. She is moving into her prime time...and
ya'll don't even realize the anointing...come in a little
closer, feel the heartbeat...the words echo what we
all have felt at some time.





Posted by Bonnie Schippling in Lincon Park, MI @ 23:37 on Sep 17 2005

This is the worst review of Rhonda Hanson's music I've ever heard. Anybody who would take the time to listen to this album that had their heart in the right place would sense the emotion poured into her lyrics and playing. She is an artist who truly sings from her heart and writes what she feels. If people are focused on rhyming patterns, they shouldn't be reviewing Christian music.



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