Mindy McCready - I'm Still Here (2010)

Tracklist:

01. Wrong Again [03:19]
02. By Her Side [03:53]
03. I Want A Man [03:35]
04. I'm Still Here [04:10]
05. I Want To Love You [03:38]
06. Songs About You [03:33]
07. The Way You Make Me Melt [04:25]
08. The Dance [04:10]
09. I Hate That I Love You [02:39]
10. Fades [03:26]
11. By Her Side (acoustic version) [03:48]
12. Guys Do It All The Time (updated version) [03:17]
13. Ten Thousand Angels (updated version) [03:54]

There is a sad irony in the title of this album.

Just 3 years after the release of this album, on 17th February 2013, Mindy apparently took her own life with a gunshot to her head. She was 37 years old.

From an outsider’s perspective Mindy had everything going for her. Her first 2 albums sold very well and made her famous.

Her life then took on an all too familiar pattern of brushes with the law, scandals in her love life and drugs and alcohol abuse. After several failed suicide attempts she seemed to be getting her life back together with the release of this album in 2010.

Following the death (by suicide) of her producer boyfriend David Wilson on 13th January 2013 she subsequently took her own life about 5 weeks later.

Nobody can know what demons live in another person’s head. However it’s so sad that she leaves 2 very young children who, as for as I know, are now in foster care.

The following review is by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Released a matter of weeks after Mindy McCready’s stint on VH1’s Celebrity Rehab concluded, ‘I’m Still Here’ plays like a survivor’s handbook, a testament to the singer’s newfound sobriety. Reflective and gentle even when the tempo starts to skip, ‘I’m Still Here’ is certainly the quietest of McCready’s records and it’s also the most heartfelt, playing as a confessional. As it happens, she co-wrote only a handful of these songs, which hardly invalidates McCready’s meditative comeback as she handles these songs gracefully and with feeling. Ultimately, what matters on ‘I’m Still Here’ is that outpouring of emotion: the songs are generally a mixed bag, veering from sweetly melancholy to syrupy, but McCready has never been more sensitive as a vocalist, pulling the album through the rough patches and convincingly selling the notion that she’s a sober survivor.