Reba McEntire photo by Russ Harrington, courtesy of the Valory Music Co.

"It’s a strong woman song. I’m sure there are tons of women who get the cold shoulder when the husband comes in from work. He’s had a rough day and she’s had three kids at home, especially if it’s summer. He doesn’t want to talk, something’s going on and it’s confrontation time. If you are giving me the cold shoulder, if you’re not wanting to talk to me, and if things aren’t getting any better and if I don’t turn you on, consider me gone. Here’s the way the cow eats the cabbage. It’s like, let’s poop or get off the pot. Tell it like it is. It’s a pretty cool song and it’s confrontation time. That is one thing that is wrong with relationships, that there’s not enough communication."

"But Why"
(Jason Sellers, Neil Thrasher)

"I love the melody. It’s one of those love songs that I usually don’t record. It’s also a strong woman song: ‘I can do this by myself, but why would I want to when I can share it with you?’ It’s a real sweet love song. It’s a very soft song."

"Pink Guitar"
(Ed Hill, Jamie O’Neal, Shaye Smith)

"This is just a kick-ass fun song. I can see lots of little girls going, ‘Yeah, I want to play guitar.’ When I was growing up, guitars were for boys; that was the men’s instrument, especially an electric guitar. Girls could play an acoustic guitar. I remember the girl who played on one of the awards shows with Carrie Underwood. She got out there and played her butt off. That was when I found ‘Pink Guitar.’ I said, ‘She’s going to love this song.’

"I love the attitude of it. It’s still country; it’s almost like ‘Fancy.’ This girl had this dream and she went on to survive and succeed. It’s real cute and I love to sing it."

"She's Turning 50 Today"
(Liz Hengber, Tommy Lee James, Reba McEntire)

"It’s a song about a woman who found out that her husband left on Saturday for a woman who is half her age. She spent the day lying in bed, but then on Monday got up, loaded up her pickup truck and began a new chapter of her life. She went on with her life and didn’t look back.

"I wrote the first two lines of ‘She’s Turning 50 Today’ and sent it to Liz Hengber. I said, ‘Why don’t you work on this a little bit and email me back what you’ve got?’ Two years went by, and I said, ‘Liz, what about that song?’ She said, ‘Tommy Lee James and I are going to work on it.

"So by the time this album came around to start recording, they sent me an MP3 of it while I was in the studio. I rewrote the second verse to make it more personal and relate to me when I left Stringtown, Oklahoma, in 1987. So in a way it’s about me leaving a relationship, but it was certainly years ago, but put the two together."