Various Artists - She Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool: A Tribute to Barbara Mandrell

In the early eighties, before the nineties debate about whether the new generation of country artists were country at all, Barbara Mandrell experienced the same questions about her commitment to country music. With her glamorous and glitzy stage shows, her TV series and her pop-orientated commercial success, traditionalists were appalled.

Mandrell's response was to record I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool. Now a decade after her retirement, She Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool: A Tribute to Barbara Mandrell is an all-star tribute demonstrating just how influential and well-loved Barbara Mandrell's music has been to the new generation of country artists. The styles swing from string-drenched torch songs, to harder edged, rocking versions of Mandrell's hits.

• I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool - Reba McEntire & Kenny Chesney
• Sleeping Single In A Double Bed - Terri Clark
• If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don't Wanna Be Right - LeAnn Rimes
• In Times Like These - Brad Paisley
• The Midnight Oil - Gretchen Wilson
• Crackers - Sara Evans
• This Time I Almost Made It - Willie Nelson & Shelby Lynne 
• I Wish That I Could Fall In Love Today - Blaine Larsen
• That's What Friends Are For - Lorrie Morgan
• Fast Lanes And Country Roads - Dierks Bentley
• Years - Randy Owens
• He Set My Life To Music - Cece Winans