Lord, did I ever come into this album with grave trepidation on many fronts :... The press release reminds us it's been a LONG while during Wyonna's tabloid exploits since we have gotten new material from her, she CO-produces for the first time (see some of last two months reviews about what happens when good artists turn into crappy self-producers) , this material is stylistically all over the map including two questionable covers... why this album is just a bunch of iffy risks waiting to inflate into a debacle.

That is what I thought before I listened.

Whoa Doggies have I not ever changed my mind THIS dramatically in a LONG TIME. This is definitely the most powerful, irresistible, and killer set of a dozen tunes daughter Judd has put out since her legendary solo debut. This album rocks, whines, hums, rattles; it was IMPOSSIBLE to listen to most of these songs just ONCE.

Virtually EVERY risk on this album pays off splendidly. The only two songs that don't and that keep this wonderful CD from a clean 5 rating aren't bad, it's that they just aren't as damn amazing as the rest of the tunes and the comparison causes the whole to suffer a tiny bit. A VERY TINY BIT. The workaday feel of the weird almost-too-rock "Chain Reaction" and the plainness (in comparison) of "Learning to Live with Love Again" only infinitesimally diminish the power of this disc.

The opening two cuts "Going Nowhere" and the title song, are so infectious their hooks are like Heroin and DARE you not to start dancing around the room. (yes, which I did after being shocked out of my pre-listening malaise of being worried this album was going to royally suck.) " Can't Nobody love You," " I Can't Wait to Meet you," and especially "I've Got Your Love" take Wynonna's country rock Bonnie Raitt-ness and meld it with her Dionne Warwick channeling that was so successful on some of the cuts on her last CD and the results are spine-tingling thrilling songs of thrust, power, and glorious abandon.

Even the two aforementioned questionable covers kick major ass. Wy's take on Joni Mitchell's "Help Me" is at once ethereal and powerful and her cover of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, "Tuff Enuff" actually almost makes the original pale in comparison.

YOU MUST GET THIS ALBUM. Country or not, to misquote another killer track from this disc entitled "He Rocks ." This CD, "IT Rocks !!!!!!!!! "