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Music CD - Tristan Prettyman: Hello
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Music CD: Hello
Artist: Tristan Prettyman
List Price: $12.98
Our Price: $6.68
Your Save: $ 6.30 ( 49% )
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Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
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Tracks:
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1. Hello
2. Echo
3. California Girl
4. Madly
5. Blindfold
6. Handshake
7. War Out Of Peace
8. You Got Me
9. Don't Work Yourself Up
10. A Little Bit
11. Interviews
12. In Bloom
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0094636663722
Label: Virgin Records Us
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Virgin Records Us
Release Date: 2008-04-15
Studio: Virgin Records Us
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: I Love Love Love This Album!
Comment: Wow, I don't know how I stumbled upon this album, but I'm so happy I did! The vibe is mellow but still upbeat. There are so many seriously catchy songs on this album (Handshake and Hello being a couple of my many favorites). Her voice is gorgeous and unique. The best way to describe the style is that it's pop with a blues-country, soulful, folk, beachy vibe. Reminds me a lot of Colbie Cailat, Stacy Clark, KT Tunstall, & Norah Jones. It's the kind of album that you can listen to over and over and love it more every time!
Now I've got to buy her previous album, Twentythree:)
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Summary: Delightful, in vein of Sarah McLachlan or Norah Jones
Comment: If you like music in the vein of Sarah McLachlan or Norah Jones, you simply must check out the music of this young musician named Tristan Prettyman.
I discovered her two albums Twentythree (2005) and Hello (2008) a few days ago, and I can't stop listening.
Highly, highly recommended.
She's a bit more country than Sarah, and a bit less hokey-folksy than Norah Jones. But she gives great melody with a terrific voice. (Oops, did I just say that?) She actually does a dead-ringer for Norah in the song "Blindfold" (not one of my favorites, personally, though).
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Summary: enjoyable
Comment: Kinda bluesy, clever well written lyrics-not trite, guitar simple. Her voice may not be as rich as some other singers but so what-her voice is very pleasant; that coupled with decent lyrics- she standouts. Its listen to anytime type of music. I would buy another album if as strong as this one.
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Summary: Sitting by the Sea Shore Soaking up the Summer Breeze
Comment: Being what may have been one of about only a hundred people who picked up the debut album from Tristan Prettyman, I found a breezy summertime disk that was a great listen as long as the weather was as sunny of what was found on the album. And since sadly not many checked out her first album, her first single off the follow up Hello...x follows the template created for that first album down to the chorus repeating the title three time, this time being Madly instead of Love, Love, Love. But Madly isn't too derivative thanks to some well placed hand claps and a sing along chorus that should replace Bubbly in the overplayed category on the radio sometime soon.
But it is elsewhere on the album where her growth shines through. The album does starts out with the sunny California fireside bounce of Hello and Echo, but it quickly takes a big turn to the Deep South with the on the front porch blues of California Girl that morphs when an eclectic guitar takes the song somewhere else near the end. Also fitting the blues genre is Just a Little Bit which ends with Tristan singing over a bunch of guys hoping to bring her down to her knees. Handshake could have had the most infectious bassline of the year if it weren't for Death Cab for Cutie's I Will Possess Your Heart and can have even the most uncoordinated guys try to break out a dance move or two.
The high point of Hello...x is War Out of Peace a driving song which that may be best heard when your are driving yourself along a country road with the windows rolled down with nothing sounding you but rows of corn on a nice summer day. Then there is Don't Work Yourself Up, a soft song that slowly evolves into a wall of sound with multiple vocals overlapping to great effect. So be sure to pick up Hello...x this summer when you are heading down to the beach or just the local swimming pool as it will get you ready for the season.
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Summary: Madly Madly Madly Good!
Comment: If you haven't fallen in love with Tristan's voice yet you must get this cd. Her Fresh sound and addicting lyrics is perfect for a relaxing day at the beach or a drive down the coast. She is an artist we will be seeing many years down the road. So why not start your Tristan Collection today. and be sure to grab her debut album Twenty Three.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Hello, Tristan Prettyman's second album is an appealing portrait of this freewheeling San Diego, CA, native as she narrates stories about her life, loves and heartbreaks in her seductive, smoky alto. With laid-back melodies springing from finger-picked acoustic guitar, plaintive pedal-steel guitar, Wurlitzer, Hammond organ, and strings, Hello explores Prettyman's love of country-blues and folk from the '60s and '70s, on songs like the first single "Madly", as well as "Echo", and "Just A Little Bit". Recorded over six weeks in London with Martin Terefe (KT Tunstall) and Sacha Skarbek (James Blunt, KT Tunstall), Hello delivers on the promise Prettyman raised with her 2005 Virgin Records debut Twentythree- a critically well-received collection of "bright, breezy ditties about romantic bliss" as People magazine put it in its review.
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