Sony Legacy Re-releases Reba’s ‘Dreamin” for 44th Anniversary
In the year that marks its forty-fourth anniversary, Sony Legacy will be releasing Grammy and Dove Award-winning Reba Rambo’s 1980 album Dreamin’ to digital outlets for the first time. Remastered from the original master tapes by Greg Hand, the album will be available for download/streaming on May 31.
“Cancelled” before “cancelling” was a thing, the CCM architect is reclaiming her place in the narrative
“Reba was such a trendsetter,” remembers Ron Fairchild, a session musician and longtime keyboardist for the Oak Ridge Boys. “There was nobody like her. Those records had guts!” He remembers the sessions for her groundbreaking 1980 album, Confessions, vividly. “We would play those tracks without a guide vocal and go back to Soundstage Studios just to hear Reba sing. She was a quiet woman in those days, but when her voice came through those monitors, we’d just say ‘Holy crap!’ Those records made a mark. There are people today who are pretenders to a throne she helped build.”