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Carrie Underwood – Some Hearts (20th Anniversary Target Exclusive) – Double Vinyl Records
Some Hearts introduced Carrie Underwood immediately after her American Idol victory and became the best-selling debut country album in history. Its success came from more than television momentum. Underwood’s voice could deliver devotional sincerity, wounded restraint, and explosive confrontation, while the production connected contemporary Nashville polish with pop-scale choruses. Twenty years later, “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” “Before He Cheats,” and “Wasted” remain central songs in her catalog because each gives a different form of storytelling enough room to feel complete.
The album opens with “Wasted,” a song about recognizing the cost of staying trapped, then moves through memory, faith, and the uncertainty of leaving home. “Don’t Forget to Remember Me” and “The Night Before (Life Goes On)” capture transitional moments with unusual specificity. The title song provides a bright pop-country lift, while “Jesus, Take the Wheel” builds a crisis narrative into a spiritual release. Underwood’s control keeps the big moments from becoming anonymous vocal display; the emotion remains tied to the character inside each song.
“Before He Cheats” changed the album’s public image with its sharp revenge story and instantly recognizable arrangement. Yet deeper tracks such as “Lessons Learned,” “Starts with Goodbye,” “I Just Can’t Live a Lie,” and “Whenever You Remember” show how much of Some Hearts concerns self-respect and decisions made after disappointment. “I Ain’t in Checotah Anymore” ties Underwood’s new career to the Oklahoma home she had left, and “Inside Your Heaven” preserves the song connected to her Idol breakthrough.
The anniversary edition adds four performances from a Blackbird Studios session recorded October 26, 2005. Live versions of “Wasted,” “Some Hearts,” “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” and “Inside Your Heaven” document Underwood near the beginning of her recording career and appear on vinyl here for the first time. The Target configuration also features exclusive new cover art and a photo book. Spreading the original album and session material across two records gives the retrospective a clear separation between finished debut and archival performance.
UPC 198029412710 identifies this exact 2025 Target-exclusive twentieth-anniversary edition from Legacy Recordings. It is the two-record set with exclusive artwork, photo book, and four Blackbird live tracks, not the standard anniversary pressing. The added material is directly connected to the album’s original year rather than a modern re-recording, which makes it especially valuable as a historical document. For country collectors and longtime Underwood listeners, the package honors both the songs that built her career and the young performer who first carried them into the studio and onto the stage.
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic
Track Listing
1. Side A: Wasted
2. Don’t Forget to Remember Me
3. Some Hearts
4. Jesus, Take the Wheel
5. The Night Before (Life Goes On)
6. Side B: Lessons Learned
7. Before He Cheats
8. Starts with Goodbye
9. I Just Can’t Live a Lie
10. We’re Young and Beautiful
11. Side C: That’s Where It Is
12. Whenever You Remember
13. I Ain’t in Checotah Anymore
14. Inside Your Heaven
15. Side D: Wasted (Live at Blackbird Studios, October 26, 2005)
16. Some Hearts (Live at Blackbird Studios, October 26, 2005)
17. Jesus, Take the Wheel (Live at Blackbird Studios, October 26, 2005)
18. Inside Your Heaven (Live at Blackbird Studios, October 26, 2005)
19. Target-exclusive cover art
20. Photo book
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