Track Listing

1. New Way Home
2. Hold Me
3. Feeding a Hungry Heart
4. 80's Ladies
5. Do Ya'
6. Come Next Monday
7. You Can't Do That
8. I'll Always Come Back
9. Hey Bobby
10. This Woman
11. Get Back in the Saddle

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #90408 in Music
• Released on: 1993-04-27
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

The Sex Bomb Shows No Sign of Aging
Although this CD has been released for 6 years now, this is still one of my most played CD. KT Oslin shows no sign of aging on this collection. In fact she teams up with Glen Ballard (one of the hippest producers in pop music) to record 3 new tracks and re-recorded 2 more of KT's songs from her catalog. The result is sensational!

"New Way Home," a track that first appeared on KT's perfect CD "Love in a Small Town" gets a more updated production. But this song is a gem -- it's heartache personified. The song tells the tale of a woman avoiding her ex's house's by taking a new way home. KT sings with so much emotions that you can feel your heart breaking with hers.

KT can get witty with a satircal poke of modern life taboos on "You Can't Do That," while she yearns for substitutes in place of love on "Feeding a Hungry Heart."

Some of her greatest hits are also represented here including the no.1 country hit "Hold Me." A song about intimacy that every couple should listen to at every marriage therapy session. Although the 80s has long passed but her tribute to the modern woman on "80s Ladies" is a song that defies time.

This CD is a CD that crosses all music genres from country to pop to a little bit of blues. But it's the hearfelt emotions of KT, her unique gift of crafting thought provoking songs, and her wit and humorous twist to certain songs that make this CD a classic. This CD shows no sign of aging, in fact the sex bomb is alive and well. But this is also a sex bomb with heart and soul.

A Collection From One of the Best...
When I think back to 80's country and recollect the best 'artists' of the time, I think of Rosanne Cash, Earl Thomas Conley, Judds, Lyle Lovett, and K.T. Oslin. Each of these artists brought so much freshness to country music. I loved Oslin, which surprised me because I never thought I would love music by a middle-aged sex bomb, but she is so full of sass, creativity, and she has some very fun songs that are realistic and not over-blown. I love "Hold Me", which was a bold single to release to country radio (thankfully they loved it!), "Come Next Monday", "This Woman", and "Hey Bobby" are all songs that broke down barriers about how 'country women' should be and what 'country women' should sing about. My all-time favorite of hers is "80's Ladies", which seems weird since I'm a guy and at the time the song came out, I was only in my early 20's, but that song has some of the best lyrics I've ever heard and they are so honest to what women her age had been through in their lives. I especially love the ending of the song, which sounds like a nursery rhyme, but accounts what each of the 'girls from school' ended up doing with their lives. I will always remember K.T. being the best of the 80's; a strong and vibrant woman who wasn't afraid to break down the weaker sex stereotypes. If she had been my mother, I wouldn't have been embarrassed of her at all, I would have held my head high and said, "Yep, that's my mom!"

She's Old But Feisty (and talented too)
K.T. Oslin's rise to prominence in country music in 1987 brought a much needed jolt of excitement to the genre before the arrival of Garth, Clint, Alan, and the rest. Here was a woman well into her forties who wrote her own material and sang about contemporary female situations in a strong, yet eccentric, way.

Songs From An Aging Sex Bomb is a collection of Oslin's seven previous hits and four new recordings. The hits comprise all of Oslin's top ten charters. From the autobiographical "80's Ladies" to the humorously philosophical "Come Next Monday" to the horny "Hey Bobby," Oslin's songwriting is vivid and distinctive. It needs to be, since as a singer, Oslin is not the greatest, and prone to mumbling to boot.

None of the four new recordings hit it big on the charts, but all are worthy of inclusion. The lush "New Way Home" and the haunting "Get Back In The Saddle" deal with recovering from heartbreak, while "You Can't Do That" showcases the light-hearted side of Oslin.

A less chart conscious set might have included the 1991 minor hit "Mary and Willie," an all-too-real tale of people searching for that elusive dream mate. It is easily among Oslin's greatest recordings. Regardless, every track on the CD is a good representation of Oslin at her best, and a good buy for country hits collectors.