Music Review

Stephanie Davis (1993)

EW's GRADE
B-

Details Lead Performance: Stephanie Davis; Genre: Country

Several of Garth Brooks' best songs (''We Shall Be Free,'' ''The Gift,'' ''Learning to Live Again'') were written or cowritten by Stephanie Davis. Yet on her solo debut, Stephanie Davis, a collection of jazz-pop ditties, Western swing, and wistful looking-for-love ballads, Davis displays little of the insight and grit that marked the Brooks songs. As for her little-girl voice, imagine Nanci Griffith without the coy naïveté. B-

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

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