South of Nowhere

Bill & Libby Hicks | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 5, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Copper Creek
• ASIN: B00005JIZJ
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #686,319 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Dave Higgs - WPLN radio

I was captivated by the Hicks'. Bill has old-timey fiddling down to a science, Libby plays a fine guitar.

Product Description

Over the years, Bill and Libby Hicks have worked continually to expand their musical horizons. They perform at music festivals and at special events across the country. By their own admission, their latest recording “reflects 18 years of life together. It includes old-time fiddle tunes, blues, original songs, and an old hymn. When I listen, I can hear how our musical styles have merged and morphed through all these years of playing and singing together. But mostly what I hear is how blessed Bill and I were to come from families who valued music and from an area of the country where the tradition has always been to sing your way through work and play, hard times and good times, tragedy and foolishness, oppression and freedom, poverty, love, and loss. Through the “valley of the shadow” on into “sweet heaven.” Daughter Anna who harmonizes on several tracks and handles the lead vocals on Tear Stained Eye joins Bill and Libby. Significantly, Bill supplies four of the tunes.

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm not the deceased comedian, December 3, 2001

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Beel (Siler City, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: South of Nowhere (Audio CD)

I'm the Bill Hicks who fiddles and sings on this CD, not the excellent but deceased comedian. I was a professional musician before he got out of high school. There is one funny song that I wrote on the CD, about a guy who throws his fiddle up a tree and then shoots it down. I think the dead Bill Hicks would appreciate the humor. If he were still alive. I wonder about some of his fans--but I guess it takes all kinds. For what it's worth, I think this is the best record I've ever made. Libby also kicks on here. I made 5 with the original Red Clay Ramblers and some others too, as a session guy, and also the two Fuzzy Mountain records now on a Rounder CD. Y'all have some coffee before you get too annoyed with "South of Nowhere."

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid Fusion of Old Time Music Styles by Excellent Musicians, March 30, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: South of Nowhere (Audio CD)

I followed the career of Bill for years, knowing that he was one of the best of the Chapel Hill, NC college-educated old time musicians. I then lost touch with his music after he left the original Red Clay Ramblers. I learned about this CD in 2001, and got it to see if he was still up to the old standards of the Ramblers. Well his fiddling surely is, and his talent as a songwriter is even better, judged by the several excellent compositions. And the vocals by Libby are great...bluesy but consistent with the old-time style. But the real find here is daughter Anna, whose voice on Tear Stained Eye is fresh and haunting, at a par with many of the lady stars of Nashville, but not so hard...a lovely fusion of the sound of youth and the reality of adulthood. This could be a star in the making.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT!!!, June 29, 2002

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Rob (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: South of Nowhere (Audio CD)

Simply a great duet c.d....if you like old timey, laid back, fiddle & blues tunes...you can't go wrong. Check out Bill's latest solo effort titled "The Perfect Gig". It's great too. And read all about them on Bill & Libby's site at: http://members.tripod.com/~RedClayRamblers/bill/index.htm
Enjoy...