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Article: Faith Hill's Contagious Joy
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 31, 1999
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Faith Hill enjoys the simpler things. Her own music, for example.
Thursday night at Wolf Trap, the marginally country superstar so
clearly and thoroughly enjoyed herself onstage that it was impossible
not to enjoy the show right along with her, regardless of one's
feelings about Hill's oeuvre.
Hill doesn't possess one of the biggest voices in Nashville, and
she sometimes compensates by throwing herself at a pop song the way a
wedge breaker on the kickoff team would an opposing blocker. Rare
was the chorus that didn't find Hill screaming, with the veins in her
neck popping out and her eyes wide shut. But, along with being
visually stunning in a black T-shirt and slit red skirt rended by ...