Comments on: Album Review: Angela Hacker

By: Mark and carol

Mark and carol — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:34:35 +0000

My wife and I both can’t wait for another CD we thought her firast CD was fantastic and done with alot of feeling her cover of I was country when country wasn’t cool I think blows the original away AND yES we lesson to ALOT of country music as far as Zac his song when the whiskey was great also.

By: Jason P.

Jason P. — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:58:38 +0000

Well now , here we are two years after some of the original comments on here. So where is she now? I knew it all along and let me say I am glad to see her career went nowhere. When Angela was on Nashville Star I didn’t see any real country talent and I believed she had the crowd behind her because her and Zach brought all of their supporters with them. I mean anyone who supported Zach, supported Angela. They both had twice the (studio) audiance support than the other contestants were able to bring. A somewhat unfair advantage.
I never felt she had any polished talent and I am glad to see I wasn’t the only one who feels that way. I personally supported one of the other contestants anyway.

By: Bubba

Bubba — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:44:24 +0000

Over the weekend Angela was doing a show in Wrightsville Beach, NC. Just over hearing she was doing a interivew with a local magazine. She also gave her time to a little girl that stayed out way past her bed time, came to a pub and got her little pink guitar signed. Tropical Storm Hanna was coming in and nothing could have been farther on the parents minds of this cute little one. Singing acoustic with James Lablanc and later her brother, Zach was great. They were going to call off the show due to the storm but this little girl pretty much got an hour concert just for her. Requesting Strawberry wine and singing along to the whole song. This is what makes Angela Hacker a star! No matter the critics. How many times did they shoot down the greats.

Bubba, Wrightsville Beach, NC

By: nora courson

nora courson — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:30:40 +0000

I know what I like…and I LOVE Angela. It makes no difference to me if you do not. It is frusterating to me not to be able to hear her on the radio though. When I call in on a request line, they always say, “it’s not on the play list.” Can someone pleezeeee tell me whay that is? I love several on that CD. I have never bought an album or CD that had 100% winners….but loved all but two of this one.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:06:50 +0000

Angela Hacker is beyond talent…She has a raw desperation to her voice, which I haven’t heard since George Jones….I think she has a lot to offer and her record company should represent and promote her it a much better fashion. It is very seldom in country music today, that an artist can move you so emotionally. From the first time I heard her I knew she was special…So if the record company’s can see that, then shame on them. After all this is country music, and isn’t that what Nashville is suppose to be all about????

By: Ritzyglitzy

Ritzyglitzy — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:49:09 +0000

Having lived a few years longer than some of you I know with out a doubt, if we could get the DJ’s to play “total loss” she would have a hit as it would be the theme song of a lot of women!!!!!!!!

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:53:05 +0000

Ok, the thought about trying to rush to get Angela’s name out there while it was still fresh is crazy. As far as I’m concerned Angela’s fans have her name in their heads permanently. I would like to hear a few songs on album that are more upbeat than her new release. But come on.. They’re fantastic. She can take a just plain ugly song and make it come alive. She carries the experiences of her life and puts it all in her music. Her emotion and tallent comes out in EVERY song she sings. I bought her cd. My children one 8 year old, 2 12 year olds, and one 14 year old were litterally screaming and jumping for joy almost that they saw her cd in Wal-mart. Heck I’m listening to it as I type this! Everyone is entitled to their own opinions that’s right but I think you’re wrong on this one!

By: Sandy Freeman

Sandy Freeman — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:14:16 +0000

I must say that I am proud to see Mark and all the others from our fair area of the Shoals coming to the defense of our fair-haired daughter.

Let me first say that if she puts an album out there, I will buy it. I can agree with both sides of this debate though. Yes, this albm is classic Angela Hacker sound (anyone who ever heard her at Bayou knows that) but the quality of the album is less than I would have expected for a debut album for the winner of a show where WBR was promoted so heavily and especially one from a company like WBR-Nashville and the total media blitz they put out for this album after the show. Song choice aside, the recording quality of a couple of the songs didn’t sound so great (they were “covers” she had done on the show) which could have been from the sheer speed at which it was all put together. This was totally WBR, NBC/USANetworks and Nashville Star’s prodution company, Reveille LLC, trying to play on the show name and the excitement from the announcement of this years winner. That can’t be held against Angela. Give her time to get her feet under her and learn the ropes of WBR – she’s a quick study so it won’t take long.

My favorite is and shall be – EMOTIONLESS. Love it Love it Love it Love it!!! Also love Can’t Make You Love Me and Love Me Wild.

There is rumor of her official album coming out in the Fall of 2007, so please reserve judgment until after its release. As for now – she is still on of the “greatest things since sliced bread”!!

As for Zac – BRING IT ON BOY! Play your heart out and sing son, song!! I’ll buy any album you put out.

Sandy Freeman

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 10 May 2007 13:46:38 +0000

Does anyone know how well this album did for sales? I listened to a friend’s copy of the album and just didn’t like what I heard. I’m not into the gruff sounding gravel voice that she has. Leave the gravel to Conway Twitty or Jeff Bates to sing. I keep thinking in my head that she is trying to sound like Tanya Tucker or something and it was a major distraction.

I think it is a shame that Nashville Star period hasn’t been as successful as American Idol. They are one and the same show…just different genres. Based on the success levels on artists from that show, I wouldn’t even want to try out for that show. I did not know until now that the album was a “quick fix” as a first release and to get money fast. It will be interesting to see what kind of material will be on the second album, IF there is a second album…

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:58:26 +0000

I must be honest……I love her voice, but after my initial reaction to defend her album on that merit, the truth is it is not very good. I am not going to say that she doesn’t have the talent (and the voice) to stand out though. My thought now is shame on warner brothers, and nashville in general. It is sickening really. The record companies are only interested in the bottom line. So making music that has no meaning is no big deal to them. Name recognition equals album sales, and whatever worked for so and so last week is the formula that they use this week. You know I can’t really blame them though. They are just trying to make money not music. The fault lies in the hands of the idiots that actually buy the albums. How in the hell did “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy” ever sell anything anyway? Because there are people stupid enough to buy it! Angela really never had a chance with this album. I’m sure that she did what the record company said just to get to make the album. I would like to hear what she would come up with if she had total creative control in the studio. Until that happens, we really won’t know what she has to offer. Unless we go catch her live somewhere, and I will bet my bottom dollar that would be a show to remember.