Glamorous Trisha Yearwood’s fourth album, Thinkin’ About You, is a wonderfully crafted listening experience that beautifully showcases the wide-ranging talents of this emerging superstar.
    On “The Restless Kind,” certain to be a hit, Yearwood’s voice is full of the rambunctious power and emotion that fueled earlier hits like “Wrong Side of Memphis” and “Down on My Knees.” She shifts gears and comes up with another gem in the sad, love-lost ballad “On a Bus to St. Cloud,” filled with the killer lyrics and thoughtful phrasing that are Yearwood hallmarks.
    “Fairytale,” penned by award-winning song-meister Tony Arata, is a fun, upbeat romp featuring, in addition to the classic Yearwood voice, a funky, bluesy harmonica riff interspersed throughout. For good measure, the album also includes “You Can Sleep While I Drive,” a Melissa Etheridge composition, the tender “Till I Get It Right,” featuring a lush string arrangement courtesy of the Nashville String Machine, the passionate title track, with a little help from Lee Roy Parnell on slide guitar, and the endearing No. 1 smash hit, “XXX’s and OOO’s.”
   A warm, rich and finely honed effort, Thinkin’ About You proves once and for all that Trisha Yearwood is a huge artist who has just begun to scratch the surface of her potential.

-Charlton Wiggins