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CAROLYN DAWN JOHNSON Die of a Broken Heart Producers: Dann Huff, Carolyn Dawn Johnson Writers: C.D. Johnson, S. Smith Publishers: Just Another Girl's Music; Universal Music; EMI Blackwood Music; Shaye Smith Music (BMI) Genre: COUNTRY Label/Catalog Number: Arista 82876-62002-2 (CD promo) Source: Billboard Magazine Originally Reviewed: June 12, 2004 Culled from Johnson's new Arista album, "Dress Rehearsal," this plaintive ballad (penned by the artist and Shaye Smith) serves as a perfect showcase for the singer's sweet, affecting vocals. The lyric finds Johnson issuing the following plea: "Take me fast or take me slow/I don't really care how I go/In the daylight or in the dark/Just don't let me die of a broken heart." Backed by a sighing steel guitar, Johnson delivers the lyric with such tenderness and vulnerability that a listener cannot help but be drawn in. In a lesser vocalist's hands, the song could come off a bit maudlin, but Johnson turns it into a poignant look at heartbreak-something most people can relate to.-DEP
Rose petals in springtime falling to the ground.
Exquisitely produced, sad and utterly lovely in its
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