HILARY SCOTT
Flowers On Mars
Flowers On Mars – Help – Get Your Love – Sacrifice
This is only a four-song CD demonstrating the lovely
folk-style voice of Hilary Scott. Hilary is a keyboardist, utilizing
piano and organ equally well, blending those sounds together, especially
nice on the first song, self penned “Flowers on Mars.” Keyboards can
provide many different musical sounds, and Hilary has managed to blend
them well, but I believe the ‘neatest’ sound is the Hammond organ on the
first song. She uses A J Gennaro on drums and percussion, and Josh
Schilling on mandolin, with James Wells on bass. All of it recorded at
Sawhorse Studios in St. Louis, Mo. Hilary’s voice is very sincere, it
brings to my mind flash-backs to a time in music when ‘sincerity’ was
‘normal.’ Today it’s a hidden quality with so much ‘pretend’ music on
the market. So, we have to seek it out, and here it is on our back door
step. It’s about ‘love’ and finding it, losing it, and rejecting it,
and finally ‘understanding’ it. Musical songs as they were originally
meant to do, tell a story, and at the least ‘explain.’ Originally from
Seattle, Washington, Hilary makes her home in St. Louis, Missouri, and
has traveled all over the world with her music. The Columbia Daily News
has described Hilary’s ‘box’ as Americana, however I see it as much
more broad than that, I hear old-time, I hear jazz, I hear country, I
hear folk. I hear impressions and I hear ‘intimate international.’ This
is a lovely piece of work, only a small part of her upcoming album that
will be released in 2014. I will be passing this along to the Rural
Roots Music Commission, no telling how they are going to react to this
wonderful musical work of art. www.hilaryscott.com
folk-style voice of Hilary Scott. Hilary is a keyboardist, utilizing
piano and organ equally well, blending those sounds together, especially
nice on the first song, self penned “Flowers on Mars.” Keyboards can
provide many different musical sounds, and Hilary has managed to blend
them well, but I believe the ‘neatest’ sound is the Hammond organ on the
first song. She uses A J Gennaro on drums and percussion, and Josh
Schilling on mandolin, with James Wells on bass. All of it recorded at
Sawhorse Studios in St. Louis, Mo. Hilary’s voice is very sincere, it
brings to my mind flash-backs to a time in music when ‘sincerity’ was
‘normal.’ Today it’s a hidden quality with so much ‘pretend’ music on
the market. So, we have to seek it out, and here it is on our back door
step. It’s about ‘love’ and finding it, losing it, and rejecting it,
and finally ‘understanding’ it. Musical songs as they were originally
meant to do, tell a story, and at the least ‘explain.’ Originally from
Seattle, Washington, Hilary makes her home in St. Louis, Missouri, and
has traveled all over the world with her music. The Columbia Daily News
has described Hilary’s ‘box’ as Americana, however I see it as much
more broad than that, I hear old-time, I hear jazz, I hear country, I
hear folk. I hear impressions and I hear ‘intimate international.’ This
is a lovely piece of work, only a small part of her upcoming album that
will be released in 2014. I will be passing this along to the Rural
Roots Music Commission, no telling how they are going to react to this
wonderful musical work of art. www.hilaryscott.com
Review by NTCMA President Bob Everhart www.ntcma.net for Country Music News International