Yes, I am aware that i haven’t poted anyhting for a few weeks, but to be honest that’s probably not because I’m dead but because I’m a bit busy and lazy… Primarily because I have been preparing my UCAS form and CAF form ready to send off for entry to Uni in 2008, after hopefully an eventful and profitable gap year, but we shall see…
Now that I have this out of the way, I may even be able to post a few more things on this old space of mine… I think I may even start now…
You may have or may have not heard of a band called Sister Hazel. Anyway, where I live, which just happens to be Britain, they haven’t been signed or anything so the whole of no-one and the grand total of zero record stores have them or let alone heard of them. So what’s all the fuss about? I hear you thinking “If they’re that good then why aren’t they signed here?” and I suppose that’s a valid point. But honestly I really am not sure why they aren’t signed here. It could possibly be beacuse there isn’t just the market for it, but that’s hardly the case as I for one like them and the majority of the people who I have told about them like what they here. So… for the moment, you’ll just have to pay OTT prices on Amazon.co.uk, or remotely variable prices on eBay for them…
What are they like though? Well… Sister Hazel can be defined the genre of Rock/Alt Rock and maybe even a bit of Country Rock in their older albums. Personally I think they’re similar to the Eagles in many ways, but a lot of their songs sound quite different so you’ll have to make up your own mind. They also sound a bit like Counting Crows and Eagle Eye Cherry, but they are slightly more lively and heavier… I first heard them when watching the film “10 Things I Hate About You”. On a side note, I think it’s great how you can discover music so easily using films, basically, you just watch a film and any music that you like the sound of, you remember some of the lyrics and then search on Google later. 99% of the time you will find it 🙂 and all will be grand. Getting back to Sister Hazel, they have some really great acoustic parts to their songs, they are all great to sing along to, easy to listen to, and have some great vocals and in parts some very nice guitar solos… Personally I quite like the album Fortress, with the song “Your Winter” which was the song on the film, but other great albums are “Lift” and hopefully their new one being released on 12th October.
So, If you have a chance or a spare minute as I hate to call it, because really, you can’t have a spare minute as you’re always doing something, be it thinking about what to do next, thinking “Why the hell aren’t I doing anything?” or just breathing, just have a listen to Sister Hazel and you should really like it…