Reba McEntire photo by Ron Davis, courtesy of MCA Nashville
October 4, 2007 — Reba McEntire, whose new Duets CD had the highest first-week sales of any of her more than 30 albums, says one of her singing partners on the album was especially important to the project.
Reba tells Country Weekly that the one person she absolutely had to have on the album was Vince Gill, who brought along the song "These Broken Hearts."
"Vince and I have been working together since 1989," she says. "We've done videos together and other singles. We've worked together, toured together, done the Opry together. We were at the Kennedy Center Honors last December honoring Dolly...and I told him about the duet project and asked if he'd do it with me. And he said, 'You know I will, buddy. I'll be there for you,' as he has said many, many times in the past. I asked him if he had a song. It was off one of his past albums that he didn't release as a single but really wanted to. We changed it up a little bit...made it a little faster. He loved it and I did, too. I couldn't have had this album out without him on the album. It just wouldn't have been a complete project."
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