Sierra Hull - Daybreak (Audio CD - 2011)

She presents a program that includes seven original songs, and it's hard to know where to start in praising her: she has a voice as clear and carefully modulated as that of a young Alison Krauss; her songs are rooted in tradition but full of sly and subtle complications that will take any careful listener by delighted surprise, and her mandolin playing is a thrilling combination of sparkling precision and jazzy abandon. For acid-grass fans there's the rock-solid but creamily smooth "Don't Pick Me Up," a 1950s-style uptempo abandonment plaint; for those who miss the halcyon days of Grisman-Rice-styled New Acoustic Music, there's the brilliant instrumental "Bombshell" (listen to that mandolin solo, for crying out loud); and for those who think they have her pegged, there's a little slice of hot Western swing called "Best Buy."

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TRACK LISTINGS
1 Easy Come, Easy Go 3:26
2 Don't Pick Me Up 3:13
3 All Because of You 2:34
4 Bombshell 3:22
5 Best Buy 2:59
6 I'll Always Be Waiting For You 2:42
7 The Land of Living 2:58
8 What Do You Say? 2:51
9 Tell Me Tomorrow 2:31
10 Daybreak 4:04
11 Chasin' Skies 2:41
12 Wouldn't Matter To Me 3:21