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"Followin' a Feelin'"
Sherrie Austin's sassy, sensuous tenor
has a captivating and irrepressible charm that's made all the
more alluring by the delicious undertones of her subtle Aussie
accent. Yet on her third album (for which she cowrote all but
one of the 10 songs, most of them with producer Will Rambeaux),
Austin fleshes out the lower-register textures of her dexterous
voice while also breaking ground with some new thematic dimensions.
Captivating originals like "In the Meantime" and "Time,
Love & Money" address timely themes of adults coming
to terms with youthful fantasies and finding meaning amid the
madness and mundanity of the everyday world. These tracks also
prove to be worthy showcases for Austin's effervescent purrs,
growls, and harmonic flourishes. A real standout is the harmonically
and instrumentally hooky "My Brilliant Mistake," a
gem of a song about how life's worst choices sometimes mysteriously
lead to happy outcomes. Sherrie Austin's reprise of Dolly Parton's
classic "Jolene" is also an exhilarating and stunning
vocal tour de force. --Bob Allen |
Customer review from Amazon
Reviewer: A music fan from Wisconsin
"Followin' A Feelin'" is the newest, freshest album
to come out of Nashville since her last album, "Love in
the Real World". Since Sherrie Austin created her own label,
she's freed from the restrictions other country artists have
on their music, and is allowed to explore and experiment with
her music. The result is "Followin' a Feelin'". It's
songs are mainly up-tempo, "toe-tapping" songs that
make you want to turn them up and sing along. The only exceptions
are the sad, but not sappy, "Goin' Goin' Gone" and
"Love Melts Even the Coldest Hearts". Austin delivers
those songs without making them the stereotyped country "i'm-all-alone-and-no-one-loves-me"
songs that they could have been. As a plus, Austin wrote all
of the songs on her album but one (Dolly Parton's "Jolene",
which Austin revived into an intense piece of art), making her
album flow together as an album and not 10 songs slapped together.
"Followin' a Feelin'" is an album everyone should have,
as it stands out above the other "Nashville made" albums
out today. |
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