CD Review – Sarah Jarosz (Americana chantuse)
Follow Me Down
Sugar Hill Records
Sarah Jarosz already has an accomplished music career. She’s been nominated for Grammys and Americana Music Awards and has performed on A Prairie Home Companion and Austin City Limits. Now, barely twenty, she’s already releasing her second album and it just builds on the growing catalogue that this Americana chantuse has to offer.
“Come Around” sounds like Nickel Creek at their best (which makes sense since the record was produced by Gary Paczosa, who also produced Nickel Creek alum Chris Thile.) Paczosa also has produced Allison Krauss, which is probably how Jarosz snagged Union Station members Dan Tyminski and Jerry Douglas. Legendary banjo picker Bela Fleck and another Americana icon Shawn Colvin also contribute to this unnaturally star-studded affair.
Her take on Bob Dylan’s “Ring Them Bells” is Grand Ole Opry worthy. She also covers Radiohead’s “The Tourist” and turns it into an entirely different, but still brilliant track. Jarosz is just getting started, but you wouldn’t know it by her voice, or the adoration being lavished upon her. She really is the next big female voice in Americana…and everyone is going to know it (if they don’t already.)
