Equal Scary People

Sara Hickman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 13, 1989)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B00000DTIP
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #280,903 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Simply

2. Last Night Was a Big Rain

3. 500x (The Train Song)

4. Song for My Father

5. Equal Scary People

6. This Is a Man's World

7. Meant to Be

8. Why Don't You

9. I Wish I Were a Princess

10. Under the Sycamore Tree

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone should have this album., May 26, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Equal Scary People (Audio CD)

What can I say? I live in the middle of nowhere Nevada and bought this album several years ago, "sound unseen" and strictly based on a description in a music club catalog. I think I have listened to it nearly every month for the last four years. Every track is great and yet there is enough variety in the album to fit many moods. It is the sort of album in your collection that you always come back to.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good! Very Good!, January 21, 2005

By 

J. McAndrew "Jeffrey C. McAndrew" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Equal Scary People (Audio CD)

"Big Rain" and "Song for My Father" are the best tunes. This artist can sing fast and slow songs with great skill and sensitivity. Hickmann is a smart and witty musician, and well worth trying out.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional folk-pop album debut, April 17, 2002

By 

Marsha B. Rupe (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Equal Scary People (Audio CD)

I took a gamble buying this Sara Hickman debut album after reading a favorable review in a Southwest Airlines in-flight magazine. It was a gamble that paid big dividends. From the opening cut, "Simply," a lofty, beautifully fingerpicked love song that lacks the cliches so common to the genre ("We can't be one, but two is fine with me."), to the closer, "Under the Sycamore Tree," the album is highlighted by Sara's strong songwriting, her achingly sweet voice, and deft acoustic guitar work. "Last Night Was a Big Rain," once performed solo by Sara on "The Tonight Show," is a nice throwback to Country music's folk roots. Along the same lines is "500X (The Train Song)," a song that, along with "Last Night" would have fit well on the playlists of country music radio stations (if country music had not become a parody of itself and stubbornly refused to recognize its folk roots). Sara shines on solo acoustic ballads like "Song for my Father" and an unusual but well done acoustic cover of James Brown, "It's a Man's World." She changes tempo on the upbeat, rhythmically adventurous "Equal Scary People," complete with humourous chatter that sounds like it was recorded at a party. "Why Don't You" is a slow ballad driven by Sara's guitar, pedal steel, high hat and aching for a boy who no longer wants her. I rated this album four stars instead of the five because of songs like "I Wish I Were a Princess" (one of only two songs NOT penned by Sara) that, in my opinion, did not work. Overall, an impressive debut from an eclectic artist who doesn't get much deserved radio airplay because she isn't easy to categorize: Is she folk? Is she pop? Is she country? Is she rock?