The Best of Leann Rimes [DVD]

Given as gift

Great dvd

Good value and quick delivery

A great cross-section of Leann's musical talent.A must for any fan of her music.The DVD arrived with time to spare,and in A1 condition.

LeAnn Rimes is really spoiling us this week. Not only do we have the "Best Of" album and the new single "This Love" most excitingly of all we have this DVD collection of her videos and a couple of live perfomances thrown in for good measure.The videos aren't presented in chronological order which is a bit of a shame because we don't get to see her progression from awkward looking teenager crooning Patsy Cline covers into the finely groomed pop princess she is today.It is interesting to see some of the earlier pre "How Do I Live" videos that haven't had nearly as much TV play as the later ones although some do not complement the song at all. "Blue" for example a song entitled Blue all about feeling, well.....blue, is accompanied by a video of LeAnn sitting on a stool belting it out with a cheesy grin on her face. "One Way Ticket (Because I Can)" is a song about leaving the confines of home (presumably some farm with all known aunties, uncles, grandparents etc in one shack), and buying a "one way ticket on a west bound train" to the big town. Unfortunately the clothes she's wearing and and the dancing she does to accompany the line "I'm gonna go out dancing" would have her laughed back into the country before she had even lay her cowboy hat down to rest a second time.The later tracks all have slicker videos to match the slicker production on the tracks as might have been predicted. "Suddenly", "Life Goes On" and "We Can" spring to mind."Can't Fight The Moonlight" and "But I Do Love You" the two tracks from Coyote Ugly are accompanied not by their promotional videos but stripped down acoustic live perfomances from a TV special which aired in America.This is a good collection and an interesting career retrospective but it runs for less than an hour and is fairly light on extras, including just a couple of minutes of soundbites from LeAnn herself adn less interestingly a discography and biography readily available on any website devoted to Ms Rimes.It is a shame that no very new material is included. "This Love" and the fantastic Ronan Keating duet "Last Thing On My Mind" would have rounded off the collection nicely. Also no "Written In The Stars" which is one of her bigger UK hits.I enjoyed watching this immensely as I am a big LeAnn fan but it has the feel of a very quickly put together collection without much thought going into the track selection or running order.

I brought this DVD a while back and was very impressed by the material on it.By the time the dvd was brought out Last Thing On My Mind - a duet with ronan keating wasnt released in the UK...LeAnn has had the biggest success over in the USA where I think I'm right in saying the music range is far more better than the UK as it's a great mixture,so we have all her material she charted with on the dvd.