The Time Has Come (Martina McBride album)

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The Time Has Come

Studio album by Martina McBride
Released	May 12, 1992
Genre	Country
Label	RCA Records
	The Time Has Come	The Way That I Am

The Time Has Come is an album by Martina McBride released in 1992.

As of March 2007, the album has sold 277,000 copies in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album sold a less-than-impressing 1,000 copies in its first week of release.

[edit] Track listing

The Time Has Come
That's Me
True Blue Fool
Losing You Feels Good
Walk That Line
Cheap Whiskey
I Can't Sleep
A Woman Knows
The Rope
When You Are Old

[edit] Charts

Album – Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1992	Top Country Albums	#49

Singles – Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1992	"The Time Has Come"	Hot Country Singles & Tracks	#23
1992	"That's Me"	Hot Country Singles & Tracks	#43
1993	"Cheap Whiskey"	Hot Country Singles & Tracks	#44

[edit] Review

Rest assured, it's highly unlikely that Martina McBride will ever issue another record that sounds like The Time Has Come. With co-producers Paul Worley and Ed Seay (who also worked with her on her breakthrough, The Way That I Am), McBride delivers a set of neo-traditionalist country and progressive country-inflected folk songs that showcase her ability to get to the heart of a song and turn it into something communicative and thought provoking. With a host of Nashville superpickers and backing vocalists from Garth Brooks and Carl Jackson to Kathy Chiavola, McBride turns in intense performances of the Emory Gordy/Jim Rushing classic "Cheap Whiskey" for a neo-honky tonk feel, as well as the stompin' nightclub country of the Longacre/Wilson-penned title track and the Lonnie Wilson/Charlotte Wilson/Herbert Wilson weeper "Losing You Feels Good." The album ends with Gretchen Peters' "When You're Old," a meditative love song delivered with the empathy, grace, and elegance that have become McBride's trademark. This is a very solid debut, even if it resembles none of her other work. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide[1]