Learn to Sing Like a Star

Infobox Album | Name = Learn to Sing Like a Star
Type = Album
Artist = Kristin Hersh


Released = January 23 2007
Genre = Indie rock
Length = 41:20
Label = 4AD
Producer = Kristin Hersh
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fq7zefbkbgf8~T1 link]
* PopMatters rating|8|10 [http://www.popmatters.com/pm/reviews/article/9668/kristin-hersh-learn-to-sing-like-a-star link]
* Slant rating|4|5 [http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/music_review.asp?ID=1039 link]
* Delusions Of Adequacy [http://www.adequacy.net/review.php?reviewID=7327 link]
* Austin Chronicle rating|4.5|5 [http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid%3A446964 link]
* Amazon.com [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/B000JJRXGG/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music link]
*"emusic.com" rating|4.5|5 [http://www.emusic.com/album/Kristin-Hersh-Learn-to-Sing-Like-a-Star-MP3-Download/10996876.html link]
*"Washington Post" [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/19/AR2007041900707.html link]
*"Riverfront Times" [http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2007-02-14/music/kristin-hersh/ link]
Last album = "The Grotto" (2003)
This album = "Learn to Sing Like a Star" (2007)
Next album =

"Learn to Sing Like a Star" is Kristin Hersh's seventh solo album and was released in the US on Yep Roc Records on the 23 January 2007 and on 4AD for the rest of the world on the 29 January. The album was produced by Kristin herself and mixed in Nashville by two time Grammy winner Trina Shoemaker. It features her Throwing Muses bandmate David Narcizo on drums and with strings by the McCarricks.

Touring

In early 2007 Hersh toured throughout Europe and the US to promote the album, first solo in a series of instore performances and then with her 50 Foot Wave band mates Bernard Georges and Rob Ahlers as well as The McCarricks. In October 2007 she will do a short tour of Australia and New Zealand.

Track listing

1. In Shock 2. Nerve Endings 3. DayGlo 4. Christian Hearse 5. Ice 6. Under The Gun 7. Piano 1 8. Sugarbaby 9. Peggy Lee 10. Piano 2 11. Vertigo 12. Winter 13. Wild Vanilla 14. The Thin Man

Links

[http://www.throwingmusic.com Official Kristin Hersh and Throwing muses site] [http://www.throwingmusic.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21&products_id=78 "LTSLAS at the artists online store"] [http://store.yeproc.com/album.php?id=12044 "LTSLAS at Yep Roc Records"] [http://www.4ad.com/kristinhersh/releases/learn-to-sing-like-a-star-2 "LTSLAS at 4AD"] [http://www.houseofmccarrick.com/ The McCarricks official site] [http://www.alwaysontherun.net/kristin.htm#n Lyrics]