Music Review

You Hold the Key (1993)

EW's GRADE
B-

Details Lead Performance: Beth Nielsen Chapman

Anyone who wrote the rapturous ''Down on My Knees'' for Trisha Yearwood deserves a serious listen. But as a performer, Beth Nielsen Chapman — equal parts Carole King and Judy Collins — never breaks out of the somnambulistic doldrums of Adult Contemporary radio on You Hold the Key, despite a natural gift for melody and a head full of nagging questions about life and love. B-

Originally posted Jul 31, 2009 Published in issue #185-186 Aug 27, 1993 Order article reprints

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