Track Listing

1. Wasted
2. Don't Forget To Remember Me
3. Some Hearts
4. Jesus, Take The Wheel
5. The Night Before (Life Goes On)
6. Lessons Learned
7. Before He Cheats
8. Starts With Goodbye
9. I Just Can't Live A Lie
10. We're Young And Beautiful
11. That's Where It Is
12. Whenever You Remember
13. I Ain't In Checotah Anymore
14. Inside Your Heaven

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #116 in Music
• Released on: 2005-11-15
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Would American Idol winner Carrie Underwood have landed a major-label recording contract without winning the hugely popular television contest? Probably. The big-voiced Oklahoman has the pipes, the look, the pedigree, and, most important, the emotional resonance to sustain a professional career. As an investment in her future, her label eschewed the easy path in putting out an album to take advantage of her publicity, going for a name producer, Dann Huff (Keith Urban, Faith Hill, Lonestar), to handle half the tracks. It also solicited material from the same top songwriters (Diane Warren, Brett James, Troy Verges, Rivers Rutherford) who stock albums by Hill, Martina McBride, Trisha Yearwood, and Wynonna. "Jesus, Take the Wheel," the hit first single, shows off the best of Underwood's power vocals, while the sexy rocker "We're Young and Beautiful" pulls her out of her ballad-heavy comfort zone, and her autobiographical "I Ain't in Checotah Anymore" bolsters her authenticity. If the young performer oversings on occasion (the overwrought bonus track, "Inside Your Heaven"), and settles for too many generic themes, she still surprises in her ability to go head-to-head with country's reigning females. Will Underwood really survive to be a contender for the Martina throne? Let's just say that American Idol judges and voters picked the right contestant. If the posturing Bo Bice had won, rock stars would hardly be quaking in their boots. --Alanna Nash

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Customer Reviews

This Young Lady Can Really Sing
This CD has a lot of Great Songs and Carrie Underwood sings them beautiful.America got it right choosing this wonderful songbird as their Idol.My Favorite song on this is "Don't Forget To Remember Me." It is such a real song when your children leave home for College or the Military Service or to start their own life you want them to remember not to forget you.But I don't know a bad song on the CD.I heard this was a good one so I had to get it.I got very good advise.

Gotta love
I have loved Carrie Underwood since she was on A.I. This is a great first album. She keeps getting better, I would buy her follow-up album as well. I love how genuine she is in real life and you can hear it in her voice. It's a must have album. Pop it in the radio, turn it up and sing-along!

Great CD
This CD was a gift for Christmas a couple of years ago. Being an avid American Idol follower, I had really liked Carrie during the AI time. Anxioulsy awaiting her CD debut, and was not dissapointed in the first CD. There are some songs that I like better than others ( my fav is Before he Cheats), but all songs are quite listenable and really good.