Sierra Hull - Secrets
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Artist: Sierra HullBrand: HULL,SIERRA
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-05-06
Music Label: Rounder / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- Secrets
- From Now On
- Two Winding Rails
- Smashville
- Everybody S Somebody S Fool
- Pretend
- If You Can Tame My Heart
- That S All I Can Say
- The Hard Way
- Hullarious
- Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
- Only My Heart
- Trust and Obey
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Free Music Review: Tour de force from Sierra the mando princess
Hit: 5 Stars
Sierra Hull's album Secrets is the musical equivalent of slipping someone a mickey. You see the fresh-faced girl on the cover, clutching her mandolin for dear life, and think 'Oh yeah, I know what this is about.' She launches into the title track, singing as beautifully as you expected. But then she starts trading mandolin licks with Jerry Douglas, giving the performance of his life on the dobro. On the second cut, From Now On, she does it again, but this time with fiddle virtuoso Stuart Duncan and banjo honcho Cory Walker. At this point, your mouth opens, your jaw hits the floor, and you realize: oh no, oh my; I am in WAY over my head here.
Secrets is an album of voices, both human and musical. Sierra's capable voice is undeniably that of a 16-year-old. However, the credits reveal that other voices, including Dan Tyminski, Ron Block, and Clay Hess, are present. These are not harmony vocals; they are an octave down, and have been mixed so subtly as to add extra timbre to Sierra's voice where needed. Every vocal passage is immediately answered by an instrument, sometimes multiple instruments in counterpoint, weaving scintillating, kaleidoscopic patterns of sound. There are dozens of fiery instrumental solos, but they have been so tightly, seamlessly integrated into the ensemble that it leaves the music teetering on a desperate knife edge between passion and restraint.
It is difficult to fathom the generosity of spirit which led the cadre of superstar musicians featured and quoted in Secrets to welcome Sierra Hull as their musical peer. But that spirit pervades the album, and probably contributed to the extraordinary performances found in it. In terms of instrumentation, it is traditional bluegrass. But before you quite understand what is happening, and while being disarmed by her sweet, slightly naive girl's voice, Sierra the mando princess hijacks the flight and takes you on a sweeping musical soul journey to places beyond time and words.
Secrets is a fabulous, transcendent album. It really should come with a warning label. After a few listens, it is hard to go back to anything else. It leaves other, ordinary music sounding like it has a whole dimension missing.
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No Description Available.Genre: Bluegrass
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 6-MAY-2008
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