Sara Watkins - Sara Watkins '2009

Tracks list

Tracklist:

[3:16] 01. Sara Watkins - All This TIme
[4:44] 02. Sara Watkins - Long Hot Summer Days
[3:15] 03. Sara Watkins - My Friend
[3:04] 04. Sara Watkins - Freiderick
[3:08] 05. Sara Watkins - Same Mistakes
[3:56] 06. Sara Watkins - Any Old Time
[5:27] 07. Sara Watkins - Pony
[2:58] 08. Sara Watkins - Lord Wont You Help Me
[3:00] 09. Sara Watkins - Jefferson
[3:12] 10. Sara Watkins - Give Me Jesus
[2:40] 11. Sara Watkins - Bygones
[3:24] 12. Sara Watkins - Too Much
[3:26] 13. Sara Watkins - Will We Go
[3:41] 14. Sara Watkins - Where Will You Be

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ABOUT THE ALBUM
1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
Total length: 00:49:00
Main artist: Sara Watkins
Label: Nonesuch
Genre: Blues/Country/Folk, Country
Digital booklet
2009 Nonesuch Records for the United States and WEA International Inc.

With her band Nickel Creek on indefinite hiatus, singer and fiddle player Sara
Watkins makes her solo debut with a recording that gives a good sense of her
hybrid musical heritage, combining traditional country elements with
singer/songwriter pop. Its a mixture conceived in Los Angeles, specifically at
the nightclub Largo, which helps explain the presence of Jon Brions song Same
Mistakes. Of course, Watkins is first and foremost a bluegrass player, and she
lapses back into the Nickel Creek format on the instrumentals Freiderick and
Jefferson. But as a singer, with her breathy, untrained voice, she sounds like
shes spent at least as much time listening to Edie Brickell and Aimee Mann as
Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn. And she delights in juxtapositions of hill
country music and downtown L.A. singer/songwriter styles, pointedly sequencing
Same Mistakes right after Freiderick, and sticking David Grazas pop/rock tune
Too Much in between the down-from-the-mountain Bygones and the old-timey Will We
Go. She pays tribute to such crossover country stars as Jimmie Rodgers (Any Old
Time) and John Hartford (Long Hot Summer Days), as if to suggest that she is in
their tradition of performers with impeccable traditional roots who nevertheless
play beyond the borders of the Confederacy, which is, perhaps, only appropriate
for a country performer born in Santa Monica, CA.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo


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