Shania Twain Releases Multi-Format ‘The Woman In Me: Diamond Edition’
The new edition features previously unreleased tracks, live recordings and early mixes of an album that influenced the sound of contemporary country music.
Shania Twain has today (2) released The Woman In Me: Diamond Edition, in recognition of the 25th anniversary of her 1995 breakthrough album. The Canadian superstar had shared the news in August, during a performance on Good Morning America.
Mercury Nashville/UMG Recordings’ new edition of the landmark release features a newly-remastered version of the genre-crossing, multi-platinum album. It’s already been described by entertainment-focus.com as “a real treat for fans.” The package also includes previously unreleased tracks, live recordings and early mixes that trace the evolution of an album that had a huge influence on the sound of contemporary country music.
The Woman in Me: Diamond Edition is available in both two- and three-CD configurations. The remastered album also comes in LP and limited-edition color LP versions. The expanded album was previewed by the release of the Any Man Of Mine digital EP, which includes the remastered album track, the Live From Las Vegas version, and the Shania Vocal Mix.
The three-CD box set version of The Woman In Me: Diamond Edition includes 16 previously unreleased tracks. Five of these are live performances of songs from the original set, recorded in December 2019 during Shania’s residency at Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas. There’s also an entire Shania Vocal Mix disc with early takes of 11 songs, captured nearly a year before the album was first released, in February 1995.
The Live & Remixed disc, available on both the two- and three-CD editions, features two tracks captured in September 1998 at Dallas’ Reunion Arena. This was recorded for the Shania: Live DVD that also was carried on DirecTV. Additionally, there are nine remixes illustrating how Twain and producer and then-husband Robert John “Mutt” Lange continued to adapt her sound as it reached into the pop, international and even dance markets.
A quartet of country No.1s
No fewer than eight of the 12 songs from The Woman In Me appeared on Billboard’s country singles chart. Four of them, “Any Man of Mine,” “(If You’re Not in It for Love) I’m Outta Here!” “You Win My Love” and “No One Needs to Know,” went to No.1. “Any Man of Mine” also gave the artist her first US Top 40 crossover pop hit.
The Woman In Me spent 29 weeks at No.1 on the country album chart and was America’s bestselling country album of 1995. The following year, it won a Grammy Award for Best Country Album and was later ranked No.8 on CMT’s list of the 40 Greatest Country Albums.
The Woman In Me: Diamond Edition also contains a 48-page booklet with liner notes by Twain, a 3,000-word essay by pop-culture journalist Eve Barlow and photographs by John Derek, Albert Sanchez, Mark Tucker, Bo Derek and Alexander E. Harbaugh.
The Woman in Me: Diamond Edition can be bought here.
The full The Woman in Me: Diamond Edition tracklist is:
LP / LIMITED–EDITION LP
THE WOMAN IN ME – REMASTERED ALBUM
Side A:
1. Home Ain’t Where His Heart Is (Anymore)
2. Any Man Of Mine
3. Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?
4. (If You’re Not In It For Love) I’m Outta Here!
5. The Woman In Me (Needs The Man In You)
6. Is There Life After Love?
Side B:
7. If It Don’t Take Two
8. You Win My Love
9. Raining On Our Love
10. Leaving Is The Only Way Out
11. No One Needs To Know
12. God Bless The Child
2CD
THE WOMAN IN ME – REMASTERED ALBUM
1. Home Ain’t Where His Heart Is (Anymore)
2. Any Man Of Mine
3. Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?
4. (If You’re Not In It For Love) I’m Outta Here!
5. The Woman In Me (Needs The Man In You)
6. Is There Life After Love?
7. If It Don’t Take Two
8. You Win My Love
9. Raining On Our Love
10. Leaving Is The Only Way Out
11. No One Needs To Know
12. God Bless The Child
LIVE & REMIXED
1. You Win My Love [Live From Las Vegas]
2. No One Needs To Know [Live From Las Vegas]
3. Any Man of Mine [Live From Las Vegas]
4. Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under [Live From Las Vegas]
5. (If You’re Not In It For Love) I’m Outta Here! [Live From Las Vegas]
6. Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under [Dance Mix]
7. Any Man Of Mine [Alternate Mix – Without Steel Guitar]
8. The Woman In Me (Needs The Man In You) [International Acoustic Version – Without Steel Guitar]
9. (If You’re Not In It For Love) I’m Outta Here! [Dance Mix
10. (If You’re Not In It For Love) I’m Outta Here! [Mutt Lange Mix]
11. You Win My Love [Mutt Lange Mix]
12. God Bless The Child [Single Mix – Country Version]
13. God Bless The Child [Single Mix – Without Banjo]
14. (If You’re Not In It For Love) I’m Outta Here! [Live/DirecTV Mix]
15. Home Ain’t Where His Heart Is/The Woman In Me/You’ve Got A Way [Medley – Live/DirecTVMix]
3CD
THE WOMAN IN ME – REMASTERED ALBUM
1. Home Ain’t Where His Heart Is (Anymore)
2. Any Man Of Mine
3. Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?
4. (If You’re Not In It For Love) I’m Outta Here!
5. The Woman In Me (Needs The Man In You)
6. Is There Life After Love?
7. If It Don’t Take Two
8. You Win My Love
9. Raining On Our Love
10. Leaving Is The Only Way Out
11. No One Needs To Know
12. God Bless The Child
LIVE & REMIXED
1. You Win My Love [Live From Las Vegas]
2. No One Needs To Know [Live From Las Vegas]
3. Any Man of Mine [Live From Las Vegas]
4. Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under [Live From Las Vegas]
5. (If You’re Not In It For Love) I’m Outta Here! [Live From Las Vegas]
6. Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under [Dance Mix]
7. Any Man Of Mine [Alternate Mix – Without Steel Guitar]
8. The Woman In Me (Needs The Man In You) [International Acoustic Version – Without Steel Guitar]
9. (If You’re Not In It For Love) I’m Outta Here! [Dance Mix]
10. (If You’re Not In It For Love) I’m Outta Here! [Mutt Lange Mix]
11. You Win My Love [Mutt Lange Mix]
12. God Bless The Child [Single Mix – Country Version]
13. God Bless The Child [Single Mix – Without Banjo]
14. (If You’re Not In It For Love) I’m Outta Here! [Live/DirecTV Mix]
15. Home Ain’t Where His Heart Is/The Woman In Me/You’ve Got A Way [Medley – Live/DirecTVMix]
THE WOMAN IN ME – SHANIA VOCAL MIX
1. Home Ain’t Where His Heart Is (Anymore)
2. The Woman In Me (Needs The Man In You)
3. No One Needs To Know
4. Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?
5. Is There Life After Love?
6. If It Don’t Take Two
7. You Win My Love
8. Any Man Of Mine
9. Raining On Our Love
10. (If You’re Not In It For Love) I’m Outta Here!
11. Leaving Is The Only Way Out
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