Reba McEntire - I'm Gonna Take That Mountain

What this video is

Released in 2003, 'I'm Gonna Take That Mountain' marked Reba McEntire's return to recording after a four-year studio absence, during which she starred on Broadway in Annie Get Your Gun. The video's themes of perseverance and triumphant self-assertion mirrored a broader moment in early-2000s country music when female artists were asserting vocal, physical, and thematic boldness. Filmed in the Smoky Mountains of…

Why it matters

A high-profile example of 2000s mainstream country video production, the clip demonstrates the era's favored formula: location-driven performance videos with assertive female leads, fast editing rhythms, and hybridized western-pop visual vocabulary. Bardawil's direction bridges the pop-gloss of…

The director

Nancy Bardawil is a music video director and founder of Big Canvas Films. Her notable music video credits include Goo Goo Dolls' 'Iris' and 'Slide' (1998), Hole's 'Celebrity Skin' (1998), Dixie Chicks' 'Cowboy Take Me Away' (1999), and Bon Jovi's 'One Wild…