Like all great Nashville product, Girl of Your Dreams (MCA) is designed for adults who've put in several years on a single monogamous relationship--a theme so rich that Nashville is always finding new wrinkles in it. Cryner helped write all three killers: "The Girl of Your Dreams," in which it turns out the dream is over; "You'd Think He'd Know Me Better," about the wages of keeping your own counsel; and "I Didn't Know My Own Strength," a 12-step anthem cunningly disguised as a postbreakup epiphany. And she smokes Grade A Music Row corn like the excessively perky "Oh To Be the One," which honors the cheery promise the title tune undercuts, and the warmly resigned closer "Just Say So." It's your right to believe there's more to love than this. The glory of great Nashville is that it won't settle for less.

Spin, 1996