Of all the contemporary country singers to emerge in the nineties, Trisha was (and remains) my favorite although not by much. This album is typical, containing many great songs from some of the finest songwriters around (Annie Roboff, Jamie O'Hara, Al Anderson, Don Schlitz, Mark D Sanders, Dianne Warren, Carole King, Allison Moorer, Victoria Shaw and J D Souther among them), yet requiring several plays to really be appreciated. Many of the songs are ballads but there are some faster songs to provide variation. Trisha is always careful to select songs that mean something to her. I sense from the lyrics that her personal life was difficult at the time she recorded these songs.
The album opens with There goes my baby, a reflective ballad about a former lover. Maybe the second track, Never let you go again, is a sequel as it is about getting a second chance. Net comes a song about cheating, That ain't the way I heard it. Powerful thing (an up-tempo song about love) was a country top ten hit. After this comes a superb ballsd, Love wouldn't lie to me, but it did. As if to prove that love lies the next song, Wouldn't any woman, is about the end of a relationship. In contrast, I'll still love you more finds Trisha deeply in love. Heart like a sad song is about a woman (not Trisha) who cannot find lasting love whatever she tries. I don't want to be the one is about a relationship that is in difficulties. Bring me all your loving (the Allison Moorer song) is about missing somebody and wanting his love, not flowers. Allison's own version eventually appeared on one of her albums (The hardest part) two years after this album was released. The title track is an excellent duet with Garth Brooks. The album closes with another excellent song, One more chance, about a woman being in love with a man who seems to be taking advantage of her.
This is not as strong overall as some of Trisha's early albums but it is an album of very high quality that no Trisha fan should be without.