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Sammy Sadler  Main Performer

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1 I Wanna Be Loved by You Teeters/Nelson 3:43
2 I'll Always Have Denver Anderson/Wariner 4:09
3 Heart Shaped Like Texas Hewitt/Kilgore 3:01
4 I Know a Place James/James/Stinson 3:29
5 John Deforest 4:31
6 Trying to Get the Girl Tribble/Kirby/Folle 3:05
7 Thinking About Mexico Ramey/Butler 3:41
8 No Place to Land Paden/Steagall 3:41
9 If This Ain't Heaven Fisher/Silbar 2:49
10 That Old Gravel Road Murrah/Lawson 2:55
11 Thank God Carr/Sadler/Cupit 3:13
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Heart Shaped Like Texas

Audio Compact Disc

Label: E1 Entertainment

Heart Shaped Like Texas

UPC: 099923477327

Release Date: 09/29/2009

Original Release Date: 09/29/2009

Number of Discs: 1

Tracks: [I Wanna Be Loved by You, I'll Always Have Denver, Heart Shaped Like Texas, I Know a Place, John, Trying to Get the Girl, Thinking About Mexico, No Place to Land, If This Ain't Heaven, That Old Gravel Road, Thank God]
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William Ruhlmann

Sammy Sadler is a journeyman country singer who has been recording since the late 1980s, but who suffered a serious career interruption when he was shot on Music Row in Nashville in the company of journalist Kevin Hughes, who was murdered as the result of a chart-fixing scheme. Sadler wasn't implicated in the scandal, but his career was derailed for a while. He reminds listeners of the incident in the closing track of Heart Shaped Like Texas, "Thank God," the one song he co-wrote on the album, and while that might seem exploitative, it's also the only truly personal moment on the disc. Sadler has a warm, sturdy tenor voice, and he convincingly renders these 11 songs, which come from the pens of 22 writers. The material spans familiar country styles: "I Wanna Be Loved by You" is country pop; "Heart Shaped Like Texas" is honky tonk/Western swing; "Thinking About Mexico" is Tex-Mex, etc. There is also a strain of Christian religion that runs through the album, notably on "John 3:16." It's all perfectly adequate contemporary country music, but also unremarkable. Even when Sadler gets hold of a song by A-list songwriters Bill Anderson and Steve Wariner, "I'll Always Have Denver" (and ropes Wariner into singing harmony), it's not really top-drawer material, as the derivative title suggests. Sadler needs better songs and a more distinctive persona if he's ever going to be a country star. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi

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