Inside Out

1	Love Alone 4:19
2	I Would've Loved You Anyway 3:41
3	For a While 3:25
4	Seven Year Ache 3:35
5	I Don't Paint Myself Into Corners 4:11
6	Harmless Heart 3:27
7	Inside Out 3:34
8	Love Let Go 4:10
9	Melancholy Blue 3:39
10	Second Chance 3:06
11	Love Me or Leave Me Alone 3:30
12	When We Were Still in Love 4:19

Barnes & Noble

If last year's brilliant Real Live Woman is the most diary-like of Trisha Yearwood's albums, then Inside Out is at least a close second. It also happens to be a tour de force of interpretive singing by an artist who has reached the very top of that particular game. Vince Gill, Kim Richey, and Rosanne Cash (who appears on a chilling version of her own "Seven Year Ache") are the high-profile guest artists here, but the story centers on Yearwood, who kindles soul-stirring fires in a batch of first-rate songs. "Inside Out," a funky little ditty co-written by Bryan Adams and Gretchen Peters, features Don Henley sparring vocally with Yearwood as the Jim Horn-Bobby Keys sax section adds a soul flavoring to the mix. On the somber "Melancholy Blue" (co-written by the venerable Harlan Howard), the vulnerability in Yearwood's airy, deliberate voice lends jackhammer force to an account of life lived in slow motion following the death of a lover. Nothing tops the album closer, "When We Were Still in Love," a heartbreaking ballad featuring Yearwood's voice braced only by a piano and a discreet string section. The technical grace of the artist's singing is breathtaking, but in the end it's the way she turns her heart inside out that lingers in memory and makes the confessions herein both personal and universal. David McGee

All Music Guide

Trisha Yearwood's full of a whole lotta love. Five of the album's 12 tracks have "love" in the title, and the seven others that don't are about love and relationships. But whatever Yearwood's singing about, she still manages to dazzle listeners even ten years and ten albums into her career. She's an artist who blossoms with every album and just keeps getting better. She's even managed to arrange a superior list of musical collaborators, including Don Henley (back for more after "Walkaway Joe") on the rhythmic title track; Roseanne Cash harmonizing on the classic song she originally composed, "Seven Year Ache"; and even Vince Gill lending his vocal talents to the blazing "I Don't Paint Myself Into Corners." With praiseworthy songs too numerous to mention, Inside Out is bound to inspire fans and fellow artists alike. Simply put, Trisha Yearwood is timeless. ~ Maria Konicki Dinoia, All Music Guide