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General Goods

For My Broken Heart is the eighteenth album, released in 1991 by American country music singer Reba McEntire. It was the first album recorded after an airplane crash which killed most of the members of her touring band. The album is, as McEntire states in the album's notes, a form of healing for all our broken hearts and the songs were chosen to that effect.

But how do you face multiple losses in the midst of tragedy? Alan Jackson’s ‘Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning’ after 9/11 is this decade’s healing anthem grappling with that question. In the 90s, Reba’s album For My Broken Heart as a whole was a healing agent following the tragic loss of her band, tour manager and the flight crew in a fiery plane crash on March 16, 1991 after a tour stop in San Diego.

‘For My Broken Heart’ was the album’s lead single and the first #1 off this quadruple platinum record. The album itself was a record-breaker for women in country music since it was the first by a female to go double-platinum. Produced by Reba and Tony Brown, it garnered Favorite Country Album at the 1993 American Music Awards.

A trail of broken hearts winds its way through the whole album. It is probably Reba’s most thematically and musically consistent album, and the most artistically and emotionally poignant. It is a fitting and beautiful tribute to those that were lost, as well as a finely tuned instrument of healing for many at the time, and since, who suffered from the pain of a broken heart.