Suzie Vinnick - 33 Stars (2002)

Tracklist

01. Something so Sweet
02. Drive Fast
03. The Storm
04. Affairs of the Heart
05. I'm on the Edge
06. More Than Missing You
07. Picture in a Frame
08. Rock and Roll
09. 33 Stars
10. The Hands That Rock Your Cradle
11. I Need a Cowboy
12. Hanging out in Heaven
13. All That I Ask For
14. Hidden Track

"Suzie Vinnick visited her old hometown of Saskatoon recently, long enough to drop off her new album 33 Stars. And it’s great. Vinnick’s sometimes playful, occasionally laid-back, always confident vocals complement the music perfectly. Surprises lurk around every corner, like the sensational opening track Something So Sweet. It has you scrambling to confirm your suspicions that it’s a modernized version of an undiscovered gem from the great American songbook. But rather than Cole Porter’s name in the credits, you find it’s a Vinnick-Deborah Alexander original. A cover of Led Zeppelin’s Rock and Roll seems unlikely on paper, but it’s done up beautifully with acoustic guitar and jazzy vocals that evoke a lazy summer day. Regardless of the writer, whether it’s Tom Waits (Picture in a Frame) or a heartfelt original (Hanging out in Heaven), the sound holds together. Shades of Lisa Loeb in the title track and Amy Sky in the writing on the Les Smith/Kristi Magraw composition The Hands that Rock the Cradle. Wow.

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