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perfecT Artist: Sam Shaber
Label: The Orchard
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 669910308028
EAN: 0669910308028
ASIN: B000038A4H


Release Date: 2000-04-08

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Tracks:

  1. Invisible Woman
  2. All Of This
  3. Perfect
  4. Hush-A-Bye
  5. Rooftop
  6. Honey
  7. Sometimes It Hurts
  8. Bomb Threat In New Orleans
  9. City Lights Laments
  10. Rain & Sunshine
  11. Playing House
  12. Frere Jacques
  13. Mary-Anne
  14. Quaalude III
  15. Walkin' At Night

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars absolutely amazing.......2000-04-21

An amazing singer and songwriter, Sam held the audience at a recent Hamilton College show absolutely enthralled. The CD perfectly captures the intensity and personality of the singer.

5 out of 5 stars The greatest undiscovered folk artist I've ever seen.......2000-04-04

I've had the privelege of seing Sam Shaber perform live twice. This CD doesn't quite live up to that experience, but it is still one of the best albums I've ever heard. Sam is a terrific songwriter and musician, and the intimacy and heart that she brings to her performance is captured beautifully on this album. I carried this CD around with me from home to the car to work for three months and didn't get tired of it. Definitely a top five desert island disc.

5 out of 5 stars Gutsy and inventive.......2000-02-11

Every so often, someone manages to shake up my notion of what modern folk music is; the Indigo Girls in 1989, Jamie Notarthomas in 1992, Ani DiFranco in 1993, Jonathan Edwards in 1994. For 2000, it's Sam Shaber, who calls her music "acoustic soul," and it fits.

Sam, an accomplished guitarist, manages on her second CD to move swiftly from righteously indignant, to playfully flirtatious, to hopelessly codependent, to unashamedly jubilant - sometimes in the same song! - and makes it work. The obvious lack of fear or self-consciousness in her lyrics certainly reminds me of Ani, though (forgive me) unlike Ani, she sings pretty damn well, too.

Perhaps the best thing I can ever say about an artist is that she moves me, and that's definitely the case here. Even the last moment on the disc - a snippet of Sam breaking a string - reveals more humanity and vulnerability than a hundred Dan Hill songs.

Relevant, powerful, fun, and just plain good listening. Can't wait for the next one (and for the next pressing of her first CD, for that matter).

Music CD:

  1. Fields of the Young ~ Donnie Munro
  2. Live from the Music Hall Aberdeen ~ The Occasionals
  3. Willie's Last Session ~ The Cullivoe Band with Willie Hunter
  4. Austin Echo
  5. Beg the Sky ~ Sam Hensley
  6. Lonely Blue Micro Dot & More ~ Todd Shea
  7. Greening Wind ~ Steve Tilston
  8. Renaissance Man ~ Michael Angelo
  9. From Where I Stand ~ Sarah Cleaver
  10. This Empty Space ~ Dwight D. Evans

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Eist Linn ~ Eishtlinn

Lies ~ Krabathor

It Had to Do with Love ~ Koufax

85555/Herzlichen Glueck ~ Spliff

Co Dex ~ Giovanni Ferretti

Songs and Music From Georgia (Chants Et Musiques De Georgie) ~ Idjassi

African Child ~ Tu Nokwe

Permanent Record [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

Amejisuto No Hitomi ~ Japanimation

On a Wing and a Prayer ~ Gerry Rafferty