After a fine comeback with the excellent "Consider Me Gone", Reba has been working on a rather fruitful comeback. Her last two albums, Keep On Loving You and All the Women I Am, had plenty of strong material to cement her status as a hitmaker once more. Sure, "Turn On the Radio" might've been a little more modern and slick than we're used to from her, but it still worked enough to get her another number one. So you'd think that her cover of "If I Were a Boy" would've done something, but instead it dropped like a rock. No matter; just about anything off All the Women I Am should be a hit. Especially "When Love Gets a Hold of You". 

"When Love Gets a Hold of You" would be a good song in just about anyone's hands — after all, it's a Jon Randall co-write, and he never misses.The melody is pleasant and mellow, fitting nicely with pleasantly unadorned lyrics about a man who's in love, but is maybe too much of a man to admit it. Sure, lyrics like "It's just a matter of time / It's gonna hit you right between the eyes" aren't groundbreaking, but they don't have to be; the song succeeds in its execution, particularly with Reba's trademark voice handling it as confidently as anything else she's ever done. If this song had been around in 1993, she easily would've taken it to the top. 

Maybe two "modern" songs in a row from Reba was a bit too much for some fans, especially when one of them is a pop cover. Whatever the case, "When Love Gets a Hold of You" is unmistakably Reba and unmistakably a hit. Look for this one to bring her back into the single digits once more (and, if there's any justice, watch the album's best track, "Somebody's Chelsea", repeat that feat later in the year). Because more Reba is always a good thing in my book.

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