Sunny Border Blue

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Kristin Hersh's Sunny Border Blue exists in a snowed-in, two-room cabin, and she's stuck feeding the potbellied stove, hoping the chimney doesn't back up, braced always against the other. That other sometimes forms a lover, sometimes a friend, or a child, a confidante, or a betrayer--the figure's face shifts even as the singer flips from seeping anxious jealousy ("Spain") to railing ("37 Hours"). Hersh plays all instruments except on "Trouble," a Cat Stevens cover that fits the smooth sonic landscape but stands out from her own songs in sticking to one emotional sensibility. Short on the noise and vocal histrionics of her earlier work, Sunny Border Blue bends the ear and, by extension, the listener's nervous system. --Andrew Hamlin

Product Description
Fifth album from Mrs. Hersh features 13 new songs (she plays all the instruments) and a heart-wrenching cover of Cat Stevens' 'Trouble'. Standard jewel case. 2001 release.

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Sunny Border Blue

Average customer rating: A little bit off centre Best of the best Buy This Now Fantastic... When was the last time...

Sunny Border Blue Kristin Hersh Manufacturer: 4ad / Ada ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Hips and Makers Strange Angels Learn to Sing Like a Star Strings The Real Ramona ASIN: B000056BKS Release Date: 2001-03-06

Tracks:

1. Your Dirty Answer
2. Spain
3. 37 Hours
4. Silica
5. William's Cut
6. Summer Salt
7. Trouble
8. Candyland
9. Measure
10. White Suckers
11. Ruby
12. Flipside
13. Listerine

Amazon.com

Kristin Hersh's Sunny Border Blue exists in a snowed-in, two-room cabin, and she's stuck feeding the potbellied stove, hoping the chimney doesn't back up, braced always against the other. That other sometimes forms a lover, sometimes a friend, or a child, a confidante, or a betrayer--the figure's face shifts even as the singer flips from seeping anxious jealousy ("Spain") to railing ("37 Hours"). Hersh plays all instruments except on "Trouble," a Cat Stevens cover that fits the smooth sonic landscape but stands out from her own songs in sticking to one emotional sensibility. Short on the noise and vocal histrionics of her earlier work, Sunny Border Blue bends the ear and, by extension, the listener's nervous system. --Andrew Hamlin

Album Description

Fifth album from Mrs. Hersh features 13 new songs (she plays all the instruments) and a heart-wrenching cover of Cat Stevens' 'Trouble'. Standard jewel case. 2001 release.

Album Details

Limited edition deluxe box set

Customer Reviews:

A little bit off centre.......2006-11-27

I keep this album in a subgroup that includes

Hanne Hukkelberg - Little Things
Bjork - Debut
Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier
Mary Margaret O Hara - Miss America
Katell Keineg - Jet
Anjani - Blue alert
Kate Bush - The Hounds of Love
Martha Wainwright - Martha Wainwright
Patti Smith - Horses
Sinead O Connor - The lion and the Cobra
Delores O Riordan (The Cranberries) - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?

etc.

Modern female vocalists. I can highly recommend all of the above.

Best of the best.......2006-07-19

I've been a fan of Kristin's since the late 80's about House Tornado time. She and the muses (and the spinoff Belly) have always been on my list of top few bands. But this album, quite unexpectedly rose straight to the top. Great lyrics and such a strange, edgy, uncomfortable mood and rhythms. I think it's cause she's playing the instruments too, there is something realized in this album that just isn't in her other work. Very nice.

Buy This Now.......2005-10-31

This album is on a short list of albums I never tired of. I love her arrangements and her lyrics. Year after year I seem to get new meaning from the songs on this album. And from someone who almost never likes covers, yes, Trouble is gorgeous.

Fantastic..........2004-01-25

This is one of those albums that you really have to sit with for a while and let sink in before you really "get it." You may like it right away and come to appreciate it deeper as time passes or you may be like myself and think it's boring and meandering when you first hear it. But, taking in the rest of her recordings (both with Throwing Muses and on her own) really puts this album in its place: among her best work. The songs are completely realized and some of the most well thought out pieces she's ever done. The real impressive part is that, in Stevie Wonder style, she played about 98% of the instruments on the album herself. So, it feels like the work of single person as opposed to sounding like a person singing their lyrics over musicians. Very cohesive, layered, and all around a very rewarding album. Possibly my favorite record of any Throwing Muses or Kristin solos.

When was the last time..........2003-08-04

that you bought a CD that made you think, that made you want to get up and dance, made you want to call your friends and tell them about it, made you listen close, made you spend 15 minutes looking for the headphones so you could hear better? When was the last time a CD kept you awake at night thinking about it, running the songs through your mind over and over for hours, and when you woke up the next morning you found that you were still thinking about it? How long has it been since a record made you nod in appreciation of its musicianship, laugh at its cleverness and humor, and sometime almost made you cry?

I have been an admirer, although not an ardent fan, of Krisin Hersh for 10 or 15 years. I've always enjoyed her work but it always struck me as a little bit off in some way. But this is the brilliantly crafted alt-rock masterpiece that I have often suspected that she had in her. Musically, it walks somewhere in the line between a Throwing Muses album and one of Ms. Hirsh's acoustic solo albums, such as "strange angels." It has some power-pop with plenty of satisfying hooks, and it also has a couple of moody guitar-strumming tunes. It has a very clean, crisp sound with Hirsh's distinctive voice at the forefront. The lyrics are intensely personal and sometimes painful, but still done with a cleverness that has to be admired. Although I have not heard every Muses or Hirsh solo album, this is by far the best of the ones that I have heard.

Average customer rating:

Sunny Border Blue Kristin Hersh Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000A2P03A Release Date: 2001-03-06

Tracks:

1. Your Dirty Answer
2. Spain
3. 37 Hours
4. Silica
5. William's Cut
6. Summer Salt
7. Trouble
8. Candyland
9. Measure
10. White Suckers
11. Ruby
12. Flipside
13. Listerine

Average customer rating: A little bit off centre Best of the best Buy This Now Fantastic... When was the last time...

Sunny Border Blue Kristin Hersh Manufacturer: 4ad ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Hips and Makers Strange Angels Learn to Sing Like a Star Strings The Real Ramona ASIN: B000059MEG Release Date: 2001-03-12

Amazon.com

Kristin Hersh's Sunny Border Blue exists in a snowed-in, two-room cabin, and she's stuck feeding the potbellied stove, hoping the chimney doesn't back up, braced always against the other. That other sometimes forms a lover, sometimes a friend, or a child, a confidante, or a betrayer--the figure's face shifts even as the singer flips from seeping anxious jealousy ("Spain") to railing ("37 Hours"). Hersh plays all instruments except on "Trouble," a Cat Stevens cover that fits the smooth sonic landscape but stands out from her own songs in sticking to one emotional sensibility. Short on the noise and vocal histrionics of her earlier work, Sunny Border Blue bends the ear and, by extension, the listener's nervous system. --Andrew Hamlin

Album Description

Fifth album from Mrs. Hersh features 13 new songs (she plays all the instruments) and a heart-wrenching cover of Cat Stevens' 'Trouble'. Standard jewel case. 2001 release.

Album Details

Limited edition deluxe box set

Customer Reviews:

A little bit off centre.......2006-11-27

I keep this album in a subgroup that includes

Hanne Hukkelberg - Little Things
Bjork - Debut
Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier
Mary Margaret O Hara - Miss America
Katell Keineg - Jet
Anjani - Blue alert
Kate Bush - The Hounds of Love
Martha Wainwright - Martha Wainwright
Patti Smith - Horses
Sinead O Connor - The lion and the Cobra
Delores O Riordan (The Cranberries) - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?

etc.

Modern female vocalists. I can highly recommend all of the above.

Best of the best.......2006-07-19

I've been a fan of Kristin's since the late 80's about House Tornado time. She and the muses (and the spinoff Belly) have always been on my list of top few bands. But this album, quite unexpectedly rose straight to the top. Great lyrics and such a strange, edgy, uncomfortable mood and rhythms. I think it's cause she's playing the instruments too, there is something realized in this album that just isn't in her other work. Very nice.

Buy This Now.......2005-10-31

This album is on a short list of albums I never tired of. I love her arrangements and her lyrics. Year after year I seem to get new meaning from the songs on this album. And from someone who almost never likes covers, yes, Trouble is gorgeous.

Fantastic..........2004-01-25

This is one of those albums that you really have to sit with for a while and let sink in before you really "get it." You may like it right away and come to appreciate it deeper as time passes or you may be like myself and think it's boring and meandering when you first hear it. But, taking in the rest of her recordings (both with Throwing Muses and on her own) really puts this album in its place: among her best work. The songs are completely realized and some of the most well thought out pieces she's ever done. The real impressive part is that, in Stevie Wonder style, she played about 98% of the instruments on the album herself. So, it feels like the work of single person as opposed to sounding like a person singing their lyrics over musicians. Very cohesive, layered, and all around a very rewarding album. Possibly my favorite record of any Throwing Muses or Kristin solos.

When was the last time..........2003-08-04

that you bought a CD that made you think, that made you want to get up and dance, made you want to call your friends and tell them about it, made you listen close, made you spend 15 minutes looking for the headphones so you could hear better? When was the last time a CD kept you awake at night thinking about it, running the songs through your mind over and over for hours, and when you woke up the next morning you found that you were still thinking about it? How long has it been since a record made you nod in appreciation of its musicianship, laugh at its cleverness and humor, and sometime almost made you cry?

I have been an admirer, although not an ardent fan, of Krisin Hersh for 10 or 15 years. I've always enjoyed her work but it always struck me as a little bit off in some way. But this is the brilliantly crafted alt-rock masterpiece that I have often suspected that she had in her. Musically, it walks somewhere in the line between a Throwing Muses album and one of Ms. Hirsh's acoustic solo albums, such as "strange angels." It has some power-pop with plenty of satisfying hooks, and it also has a couple of moody guitar-strumming tunes. It has a very clean, crisp sound with Hirsh's distinctive voice at the forefront. The lyrics are intensely personal and sometimes painful, but still done with a cleverness that has to be admired. Although I have not heard every Muses or Hirsh solo album, this is by far the best of the ones that I have heard.

Average customer rating:

Sunny Border Blue Kristin Hersh Manufacturer: 4AD ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000LY8EYY

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