Hilary Sloan's music is Socially conscious, progressive bluegrass and old-school country - Urban-inspired, rural laments of the working class.
Hilary is a Houston based violinist with Classical and bluegrass background. She began playing at a very early age and performed in the church. Hilary was a part of the Bluegrass Festival Circuit throughout the 1990's and played Houston's club circuit with her band Aunt Erma's Fillin Station.
Hilary also performs solo w/ guitar and extended free fiddle improvisation, incorporating elements of bluegrass, celtic, classical, and blues. Original compositions ranging from bluegrass, indie, pop, swing, depression-evoking country-Songs of people and places, love and life.
Hilary Sloan "Images form Hard Luck Town" is a story of a Hard Luck Man driven to the life of a soldier who returns home to find all that he knew was destroyed.
"Images from Hard Luck Town" is a project years in the making - the songs first being written around the time war was declared on Iraq by the U.S. Recorded in front of a live audience days before Katrina hit the Gulf Coast @ Northwoods Unitarian Universalist Church w/ Marco Saenz portable digital studio.
1 Images
2 Hard Luck Town
3 If We're All The Same
4 Rachel Corrie
5 Midnight On The Stormy Deep
6 Some Things They Can't Take Away
7 Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
8 Valley of Shadows
9 Let Them Have
