Call My Name

Sara Hamilton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 14, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Stag Records
• ASIN: B0009HLC3S
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #688,565 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars summertime dreams, July 15, 2005

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Jerome Clark (Canby, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Call My Name (Audio CD)

This album has a crisp, swinging sound thanks to Jesse Dayton's production skills and an excellent studio band including the fabled electric-guitar master Redd Volkaert. Based in Dallas/Fort Worth, Sara Hamilton is an appealing singer whose vocal style falls somewhere between Mary Chapin Carpenter and Lucinda Williams. So do her songs, though closer perhaps to the former's spirit than the latter's. That means familiar themes of romantic ups and downs set to sprightly rock, country, and pop melodies, all professionally accomplished and heard to best advantage, I suspect, in one's car.

The stand-out cuts in my hearing are the opener "Better Than I Used to Be," possibly because my heart and brain melt when exposed to rockabilly radiation. "Back My Way" is nothing profound, but it is one of those irresistible summer songs transformed into pure bliss by Bradley Jaye Williams's cheery accordion. I love the concluding cut, a cover of Memphis Minnie's "Ain't No Use Tryin' to Tell on Me." In fact, I love the fact that Hamilton has heard of Minnie, which means that her roots are more than half an inch deep.

As you listen to the disc in its entirety, you can't help thinking that this is how modern commercial country music ought to sound. Nothing terribly original is happening here, but at the same time everything manages to come together to make you glad to be there.

5.0 out of 5 stars A true Texas songwriter, July 29, 2010

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S. Cuevas - See all my reviews

This review is from: Call My Name (Audio CD)

Without a doubt, one of the most beautiful and gifted songwriters that helms from Texas. I was first introduced to her music through a friend. She has, as her album proves, a rare ability to fuse country, rock, and confessional songwriting. This album reveals a talented musician and time will definitely bring her to the forefront of Americana's best. Listen to Dry Spell and Long Way Home; the perfect soundtrack to a night's drive outside of the city limits.