Airstreams & Satellites

Garrison Starr | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 17, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vanguard Records
• ASIN: B00019PDRA
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,638 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 2004 Album of the Year!, December 12, 2004

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Keith Sparbanie "Photographic Artist" (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Airstreams & Satellites (Audio CD)

If, like me, you sometimes turn on the radio and wonder if there are any great songwriters anymore, any great vocalists anymore, or any great records anymore...

Then, you owe it to yourself to pick up Garrison Starr's "Airstreams & Satellites" on Vanguard. Garrison is the Real Deal and this CD has it all: wonderful songs with strong melodies, intelligent lyrics, tasteful arrangements, stellar vocal and instrumental performances, and crisp production.

Forget about the music industry's big annual awards shows (which are too often based on sales, popularity, or trends). THIS IS THE RECORD OF THE YEAR!

I first discovered G-Starr doing a solo acoustic set, opening for Melissa Etheridge. I picked up her last CD, "Songs from Take-off to Landing" and was quite impressed to hear that Garrison rocks! The disc was filled with incredible material, sweet, soulful, emotional singing, killer electric guitars, and powerful drums. It clearly demonstrated an emerging artist whom deserved instant stardom. Despite Garrison's young age, there was such a maturity, sensitivity, and depth to her songs that I couldn't imagine anything (even clueless radio programmers) holding her back. "Take-off" was THAT good. A career defining moment. How could she even top it?

Well guess what? She has! "Airstreams & Satellites" is even better!

G-Starr's music runs the gamut of styles: rock 'n roll, pop, Americana, country. The songs are personal and heartfelt. Often the wordplay is clever, even funny. There's an honesty to her work that is rare these days in our cynical, mass-produced, cookie-cutter society of consumers with short-attention spans.

"Airstreams & Satellites" is premium rock music for music lovers with an appreciation for GREAT songs, GREAT vocals, and GREAT instrumentation. Classic stuff. Rock of ages. The kind of record that gets listed on those "stranded on a island, which would you take?" polls.

Buy it. NOW!

"Airstreams & Satellites." Garrison Starr. Vanguard Records.

ALBUM OF THE YEAR!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another excellent release from G-Starr, February 21, 2004

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William Merrill "eclecticist" (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Airstreams & Satellites (Audio CD)

(4 & 1/2 starrs) If there was any justice in the music biz - or if the record-buying public had any taste - this CD would be a hit. It's one of my favorite discs of 2004 so far. Ms Starr has got it all -- winning vocals that have both strength and vulnerability, solid backing musicians, really good songs, etc. Just about the entire album is good, but I especially like the songs "Wonderful Thing," "Hey Girl" and the title track. For a reference point only, Garrison's style falls roughly into the same category as that of two other equally fine singer-songwriters, Patty Griffin and Lucinda Williams. If you like their stuff, I bet you'll like this CD a lot too.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars buy this album-you won't regret it, October 15, 2004

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Rams fan "Brian" (Saint Louis, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Airstreams & Satellites (Audio CD)

This is the first album I bought from this artist, and I didn't know much about her. I was blown away by this album it is so good. I would think "that song is great, there is no way the next song is going to be this good". And then the next song WAS as good, and sometimes better! She blends rock with country so smoothly that she is essentially neither, and both! I don't listen to country and I still loved it. She has a wonderful, honest voice and great lyrics. It isn't an album where you snooze through the verses waiting for the catchy chorus--from start to finish the songs are great. I cannot believe she isn't selling millions of this album--she should be on the radio all of the time!! I am definitely going to get more of her music.