Product Description

'Sunny Border Blue' is the follow up to 1999's 'Sky Motel'.This latest, largely acoustic album, by the former ThrowingMuse includes a cover of Cat Stevens' 'Trouble', alongside 12 self-penned songs. The limited edition CD version includes special packaging.

Track Listing

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36210 in Music
• Released on: 2001-03-12
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
When Kristin Hersh embarked on her solo career with 1994's masterpiece Hips & Makers, it was as if she was determined to exorcise every trace--bar her distinctive, serrated vocals--of the unique sound she had developed with Throwing Muses. Hips & Makers was a brutally sparse, ascetically acoustic recording (and, incidentally, one of the finest albums of the 1990s). Since then, Hersh's reliably excellent solo albums have plotted a gradual course back to whence she came. Strange Angels and Sky Motel saw the reintroduction of electric guitars and an under-rated (especially by Hersh herself) pop sensibility. Though Sunny Border Blue is a solo album in the strictest sense--Hersh plays all the instruments, except drums on one track--it sounds almost like a follow-up to Throwing Muses' The Real Ramona and Hunkpapa, which is obviously no bad thing. "White Sucker", "Trouble" and "Spain" are especially impressive additions to one of the most formidable songbooks ever written. --Andrew Mueller

Customer Reviews

A truly polished performance
If you're reading this and you're a fan then I'm sure you'll agree that this is a lot smoother than her Hips & Makers album. I think she's a strong artist and her sound, though an acquired taste, appeals to many. I've seen the Throwing Muses twice and Ms Hersh once as a solo performer and class myself as a fan. Her music is always within reach. It's definitely one to own, but I do prefer her first album, especially the track "Your Ghost".

minimalist guitar and female vocal that kicks ass at times
georgeous return of everyones favourite schizophrenic songstress, after the relative palor or strange angels and sky motel this album is most comparable with her previous solo debut Hips and Makers with added guitar tracks not unlike Throwing Muses. Check out a truely beutiful version of Cat Stevens 'trouble' for fragile hersh at her very strongest

Emotional and personal
Kristin Hersh has now made an album which she can truly say is her's. Not that i'm saying her other album weren't "her's", but this is so honest, truthful and emotional that you cannot doubt it. I was privilaged to see her live recently, and the songs from this album which she played seemed to be the ones that she was most comfortable with.

She has the ability to condense her anger, frustration, love, fear and experiences into beautiful and incredibly emotional music. There are times when this album will hit you hard with such sadness and then others when it can sooth, sometimes even be uplifting.

A truly beautiful and honest album. A must-buy.