Sarah Parker - Strawberry Moon (2018)
BAND/ARTIST: Sarah Parker
- Title: Strawberry Moon
- Year Of Release: 2018
- Label: Sarah Parker
- Genre: Country
- Quality: flac lossless
- Total Time: 00:57:11
- Total Size: 377 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
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01. Sugartown
02. 29 South
03. You Can't Tell a Heart
04. Even When You're Lonely
05. I Got to Wander
06. Strawberry Moon
07. Road to Your Discovery
08. Rose Hill
09. Talk in This Town
10. Keep on Movin' (The Train Song)
11. Gypsy Rose
12. Home
13. Lonely Highway
14. Straight from the Bottle
Sarah Parker currently resides in a suburb of Buffalo, New York but she originally hails from the swampy southern tip of Florida, having been raised by hippies on twenty acres of swamp land in what is now incorporated into the Big Cypress National Preserve. Her parents escaped there in the seventies, like many hippies wishing to eschew the excesses of mainstream society. Her youth was spent swinging between the cypress trees and wading through the backwoods (there are actual pictures of both these things), often accompanying her father deep into the swamp as he logged trees for the family sawmill business. The family built their entire home from cypress from their own mill. Homeschooled until the seventh grade, she and her sister still remember the newspaper reporters who would occasionally show up to document their very unusual lifestyle. “People didn’t know what to make of us hippies living out in the swamp. We were an anomaly,” she reminisces. “My father was a charismatic, free thinker, quick to contemplate anything from religion to a recommended type of chainsaw at any minute, to anyone who would listen. He saw no race, color, religion or economic class, he was truly a student of the universe.”
Parker’s first musical influence was her father, who like many of his generation were avid fans of Dylan and Hendrix. “My father was extremely eclectic. I remember him blasting the MC-5 one day then taking us to a folk festival the next. But his favorite music was really gospel. He was a very interesting man, having been raised in northern India by Presbyterian missionary parents. He found his way down south in the early seventies, enjoying the climate that was similar to northern India as well as southern culture. He deeply enjoyed southern gospel hymns. My first memories of music were him playing a hymn on his guitar.” Her father was also a songwriter, fusing gospel and folk in his own unique way. The family enjoyed the unique social opportunities offered by their rural lifestyle and access to the coastal Floridian metropolises only an hour from their Everglades homestead. “I remembering attending the Southern Baptist Church on the Seminole Reservation nearby, the Florida Folk Festival as well as a Buddhist meditation seminar in Miami. Not surprisingly, I have a lot to write about.”
When she and her older sister hit the age of middle school, they opted to attend a public school an hour bus ride north, in the small town of Clewiston, on the southern rim of Lake Okeechobee. “I discovered country music during my high school years. Our bus driver was a country music fan, and on that hour long bus drive (each way) I discovered everything from Mel Tillis to Garth Brooks. I’ll never forget hearing Patsy Cline for the first time at a friend’s house in Clewiston.” The influence of country music is undeniable in Parker’s singing and songwriting, mixing in seamlessly with the folk and rock influences of her parent’s generation.
Parker met her husband, renowned bass player and Buffalo Music Hall of Famer Robert “Freightrain” Parker at the Florida Folk Festival. “He was performing on stage, I was performing at the late hour campfires nearby,” she reminisces with a smile. “I guess I made an impression.” The pair relocated from Florida to Buffalo in 2008 and have been raising their Autistic son and working on their creative endeavors. “Honestly, I hadn’t written a song in about 17 years, but when I hit my fortieth birthday a couple years ago, time became more important to me. You realize that you do still have it, but not as much as you did before. That thing about age with wisdom is really true. As you get older, you learn to follow your intuition more. Maybe it was a little of that and the fact that the songs were ready to come out. All my beautiful experiences as a child growing up like we did, everything that I have been through with my son and husband. I really felt like I had something to say.”
Sarah's debut album, Strawberry Moon, is set for release in June of 2018. All fourteen original tracks are a melting pot of the country, folk and gospel influences she grew up with. A true Americana production, Strawberry Moon is produced by her award winning and Buffalo Music Hall of Famer husband Robert "Freightrain" Parker, with a full ensemble cast of some of Buffalo’s best musicians and singers. Each unique song tells its own story, exposing the listener to the swampy southern roots she was quite literally raised in. Check the show listings and sign up on the mailing list to hear and see more of Sarah’s music.
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01. Sugartown
02. 29 South
03. You Can't Tell a Heart
04. Even When You're Lonely
05. I Got to Wander
06. Strawberry Moon
07. Road to Your Discovery
08. Rose Hill
09. Talk in This Town
10. Keep on Movin' (The Train Song)
11. Gypsy Rose
12. Home
13. Lonely Highway
14. Straight from the Bottle
Sarah Parker currently resides in a suburb of Buffalo, New York but she originally hails from the swampy southern tip of Florida, having been raised by hippies on twenty acres of swamp land in what is now incorporated into the Big Cypress National Preserve. Her parents escaped there in the seventies, like many hippies wishing to eschew the excesses of mainstream society. Her youth was spent swinging between the cypress trees and wading through the backwoods (there are actual pictures of both these things), often accompanying her father deep into the swamp as he logged trees for the family sawmill business. The family built their entire home from cypress from their own mill. Homeschooled until the seventh grade, she and her sister still remember the newspaper reporters who would occasionally show up to document their very unusual lifestyle. “People didn’t know what to make of us hippies living out in the swamp. We were an anomaly,” she reminisces. “My father was a charismatic, free thinker, quick to contemplate anything from religion to a recommended type of chainsaw at any minute, to anyone who would listen. He saw no race, color, religion or economic class, he was truly a student of the universe.”
Parker’s first musical influence was her father, who like many of his generation were avid fans of Dylan and Hendrix. “My father was extremely eclectic. I remember him blasting the MC-5 one day then taking us to a folk festival the next. But his favorite music was really gospel. He was a very interesting man, having been raised in northern India by Presbyterian missionary parents. He found his way down south in the early seventies, enjoying the climate that was similar to northern India as well as southern culture. He deeply enjoyed southern gospel hymns. My first memories of music were him playing a hymn on his guitar.” Her father was also a songwriter, fusing gospel and folk in his own unique way. The family enjoyed the unique social opportunities offered by their rural lifestyle and access to the coastal Floridian metropolises only an hour from their Everglades homestead. “I remembering attending the Southern Baptist Church on the Seminole Reservation nearby, the Florida Folk Festival as well as a Buddhist meditation seminar in Miami. Not surprisingly, I have a lot to write about.”
When she and her older sister hit the age of middle school, they opted to attend a public school an hour bus ride north, in the small town of Clewiston, on the southern rim of Lake Okeechobee. “I discovered country music during my high school years. Our bus driver was a country music fan, and on that hour long bus drive (each way) I discovered everything from Mel Tillis to Garth Brooks. I’ll never forget hearing Patsy Cline for the first time at a friend’s house in Clewiston.” The influence of country music is undeniable in Parker’s singing and songwriting, mixing in seamlessly with the folk and rock influences of her parent’s generation.
Parker met her husband, renowned bass player and Buffalo Music Hall of Famer Robert “Freightrain” Parker at the Florida Folk Festival. “He was performing on stage, I was performing at the late hour campfires nearby,” she reminisces with a smile. “I guess I made an impression.” The pair relocated from Florida to Buffalo in 2008 and have been raising their Autistic son and working on their creative endeavors. “Honestly, I hadn’t written a song in about 17 years, but when I hit my fortieth birthday a couple years ago, time became more important to me. You realize that you do still have it, but not as much as you did before. That thing about age with wisdom is really true. As you get older, you learn to follow your intuition more. Maybe it was a little of that and the fact that the songs were ready to come out. All my beautiful experiences as a child growing up like we did, everything that I have been through with my son and husband. I really felt like I had something to say.”
Sarah's debut album, Strawberry Moon, is set for release in June of 2018. All fourteen original tracks are a melting pot of the country, folk and gospel influences she grew up with. A true Americana production, Strawberry Moon is produced by her award winning and Buffalo Music Hall of Famer husband Robert "Freightrain" Parker, with a full ensemble cast of some of Buffalo’s best musicians and singers. Each unique song tells its own story, exposing the listener to the swampy southern roots she was quite literally raised in. Check the show listings and sign up on the mailing list to hear and see more of Sarah’s music.
Year 2018 | Country | Folk | FLAC / APE
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