Maurice Hope – August 2, 2016 at 12:38PM
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Sara Watkins if she wasn’t a musician, singer-songwriter I believe she has all the attributes to become a top class juggler. For presently, the Nickel Creek founder act is also a member of Watkins Family Hour plus with fellow performers Sarah Jarosz and vocalist, singer-songwriter and harmony singer Aoife O’Donovan the third member of the trio I’m With Her. It is of little surprise these friends lend harmony vocal support on a number of tracks, and she has another quality act in Gabe Witcher produce and play on the record too.
On the record Watkins prises a few musical boundaries as she expresses her own emotional frailties. Relationships that have gone south and speaks of the need to move on as she sings with great conviction ‘I’ve got no time to time to look back, so I’m going to leave you here’ and “I’m going out to see about my own frontier’. A genial talent Watkins’ won’t necessarily please the purists, but such is her gritty honesty and fans she has built up with the respective units she has stepped up a level or two here.
It is like she has stripped back all the layers surrounding her own life, opened both windows and doors to her heartfelt emotions — in an effort to rid her of less than fruitful experiences, and musically hit the jackpot on a number of songs.
Songs of exceptional value, the sleepers, and there are a few that will gain in statue and attraction as time passes. In “One Last Time” and the incredible “The Truth Won’t Set Us Free” as the production and playing has the hallmarks of something from a country session of late 1960s, early 1970s. Watkins’ fiddle and vocals set the standard for Bellerose, Kowert, Etheridge, Tench, Petersen and Witcher (fiddle, guitar) to produce a song good enough to have George Jones look down from above with pride, and gather a few friends up on high tonight to perform with an angelic choir. As for “One Last Time” is contains some wonderful guitar work and magical injections of tempo set to lift the mood of all and sundry.
Of a reflective tone Watkins has “Move Me” and “The Love That Got Away” as she speaks of if you live long enough/ you start about a list of / what you would do differently and calmer ode “Like New Year’s Day” (a little treasure) plus the gently coerced ballad “Without A Word” (nice Hammond B-3 organ). To close the record Watkins choose wisely with “Tenderhearted”, a sensitive heartfelt affair she produces a simple and beautiful sound with help from Kowert, Noam Pikelny and Witcher. She tours the UK in November.
Maurice Hope
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