I Found A Peanut: #1 on Billobard: Reba McEntire's New Album

Thursday, September 27, 2007

#1 on Billobard: Reba McEntire's New Album

The little cowgirl from Oklahoma, Reba McEntire, hits #1 on Billboard charts with her 3lst album, zooming to that position on release.The sweet-voiced, sassy singer and actress again proves not only the value of talent and hard work, but that you can, as the Beatles said, "get by with a little help from my friends."

Adding noted Oklahoma singer-songwriter Vince Gill to the list of artists performing on "Reba's Duets," Reba blends a robust mix of contemporary and classic country. Carole King brings in the moody songwriter touich, with the twangy fun of Rascal Flatts for contrast.

With the success of her sitcom "Reba", her work for Habitat for Humanity, her clothing line and home decor line, Reba is as much executive and philanthropist as she is entertainer. It's been a long ride for the small-town Oklahoma girl, who got her big break at a rodeo.

Reba sang the national anthem at the National Rodeo Finals in Oklahoma City while still a college student. Her voice wowed the audience, which included singer Red Steagall. He pointed Reba to Nashville, where the famed Mercury Rercords lassoed her.

Equally at home on a horse as much as in the glitzy gear of onstage performance, Reba projects a warm, earthy, funny personality that is as authentic as the Oklahoma red dirt. Fans love her, as do critics and those bestowing her numerous awards.

The winner of more than seven dozen major awards, Billboard Magazine named Reba "Woman of the Year" in 2007.

Reba McEntire's "Reba Duets" has debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's 200 Top Albums, her best first-week showing on the chart.

"I am beyond thrilled to have my biggest sales week ever with my 31st album," the 52-year-old country singer said in a statement Wednesday. "To get to share it with all my friends on this duets project is icing on the cake."

The album's guests include Kenny Chesney, Kelly Clarkson, Ronnie Dunn (of Brooks & Dunn), Vince Gill, Don Henley, Faith Hill, Carole King, Rascal Flatts, LeAnn Rimes, Justin Timberlake and Trisha Yearwood.

Released Sept. 18, "Reba Duets" sold more t

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The Peanut Man

The morning is cool, a mist rising off the land. Just past dawn, still sleepy. But you're moving on down the road anyway.

There, under the trees, steam rising from the boiling pot, blending into the wisps of fog. The peanut man.

With the sun still barely tipping over the rounded earth, and the early morning cries of birds, the crossroads up ahead, you think: what did Robert Johnson first see when he met up with the devil? The fire glows hot as the peanut man smiles, chanting "hot boiled peanuts, fresh, sack 'em up. Hot boiled peanuts."

He hands you the sack, wet, hot, tempting with the fullness of hot boiled peanuts. You both smile, changing your money, fragile slip of paper, for what he has to offer: heat, a crunch, a taste like no other, the peanut, extraordinary food.

You hop back in your car. If you're smart, you find plenty of towels, paper or otherwise. Peanut bag goes in your lap, warming you.

Scoop out a hot boiled peanut. Here's where the juice begins, for real. If you know hot boiled peanuts, you don't crack open the peanut and transfer the meat to your mouth.

No, put the peanut in your mouth. Bite down. The warm, salty water, rich with the taste of peanut rushes across your tongue.

Lap your tongue around the peanut and shell. Suck. This is what life tastes like, meaty, salty, and warm, rich.

Remove peanut and shell, extract peanut. Toss shell somewhere. Return peanut, bare, naked, to your mouth. Taste it fully as you chew, the earthy taste of the simple peanut. Packed with protein, served with panache in that cradling shell, the peanut is about as good as it gets in the simple goodness of life.

If you've found a peanut, a whole bag of hot boiled peanuts, you've found food, warmth, sustenance, an entire culture, and something to muse about as you journey on.

Not to mention peanut shells to throw at your brother or buddy. Doesn't matter. The essence is the peanut, rich, rolling in the currents of history, from the Delta to the dawn of a new techno-millenium.

Brother Peanut is going along for the ride. And the peanut man, he'll always be out there, somewhere. No matter how long or hard the trip, suddenly, you round a curve, and there he is, smiling over his pot.

I Found A Peanut

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