The Slo-Mo Lonesome Sound Of Sierra

If the name Sierra Eagleson doesn't ring a bell, I won't blame you. She's not a household name, until you really know your cover artists on Youtube, and there's hundreds of them. So what's different about Mrs. Eagleson? 

Clearly, she's a really good singer, but those are a dime a dozen on the Tube. She is writng her own songs, which is not nothing, even if they aren't unmitigated masterpieces. And the production values for her songs - both self-written nnd cover versions for a virtual busking hat turning - are impeccable. But I don't know. There's just something about that voice and her phrasing, an aura of something hidden, maybe. A definite aura of sadness that permeates even the happier songs. I can't really explain it, but Mrs. Eagleson sticks out from the crowd. 

In many ways, she is a young music maker of her generation. Besides playing songs she likes on the Tube for likes and money, she is also completely aware that the music industry isn't what it was, so anything she is officially releasing is digital. And of course she isn't releasing any albums, though allegedly she's working on one now. 

Albums are for old folks, or nostalgic ones. But with the kind of numbers that an album sells these days, most young artists bypass albums in the beginning of their careers, instead opting for singles or - at the most - EPs. Larkin Poe were notorious for the number of EPs they racked up. So Sierra Eagleson has a couple of digital singles and a four-track EP to her name. Brush Fire is the One Buck Guy's attempt to see what a Sierra Eagleson album could look like, splitting its twelve tracks straight down the middle between originals and the slow, moody cover versions she made her name with on the net. The covers range from old school ("Take Me Home Country Roads") across some 80s classics ("In The Air Tonight", "Dancing In The Dark") to newer songs from the likes of Kings Of Leon ("Pyro") and Arctic Monkeys ("Do I Wanna Know?"). "Brush Fire" and "Midnight Hour", the bookends of the album, were the two main singles she has issued, together with "Darby's Song", the other three tracks are from her EP Solace. 

This is perfect music for very late evenings or very early mornings. 12 slices of moody melancholia for the season, a cocktail for when the days are still short and the nights long and dark.