Sisters

Beth & April Stevens | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 1, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rounder Select
• ASIN: B0000002PH
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #222,427 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!, December 10, 1999

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John J. Harville (Newport News, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sisters (Audio CD)

All I can say is WOW. These two girls are nothing short of amazing. I saw them live last year at the Christopher Run Bluegrass festival in Virgina...and they knocked my socks off. Talk about your mulit talented musicians. These two can play about any instrument in the bluegrass circuit. And their voices...... whew.....they're heavenly. I rank them right up there with Alison herself. Alison Krauss that is. If you like Angelic voices and bluegrass music...buy this one. It's a keeper.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars There's something to be said for obscurity ..., January 9, 2003

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mork - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sisters (Audio CD)

... and it's "damn, what a shame." For the Stevens Sisters' pitch-perfect cover of Steve Earle's "My Old Friend the Blues" alone, this is an album well worth owning and turning to again and again. But fortunately there's much more here. Beautifully matched voices, a flawless feel for the material and heartening simplicity are only starters. This is real country done real well.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant duo from East Tennessee, August 3, 2003

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sisters (Audio CD)

Beth and April grew up listening to different kinds of music, but especially to bluegrass, the main ingredient of their music. Two other major influences on them were blues and country and these influences are apparent on this album.

The album includes covers of Wishful thinking (first recorded by Joy White), My old friend the blues (Steve Earle), In my time of dying (the sisters based their version on Led Zeppelin's), Tomorrow is forever (written by Dolly Parton and recorded by her as a duet with Porter Wagoner) and When we're gone we're gone (O'Kanes).

Betty Elders wrote Bed of roses. Although there have been different songs with this title, I don't remember hearing this one before. The other songs are all originals that they wrote themselves, some of which are very personal.

After releasing this exciting debut, it was five long years before the follow-up, the equally exciting Little by little was released, which I've already reviewed.. It was well worth the wait, but I hope we don't have to wait another five years before they release their third album.