Sugarhill [Country]
2009
The Stars Are Out
About This Album
Push play and stand back as Boston's Sarah Borges crashes out with her hardest-rocking tune yet to open her third release. Although "Do It for Free" sounds more like a Joan Jett B-side, it's an indication that Borges is slowly gravitating away from the more countrified aspects of her sound and into bolder, brassier pop/rock territory. The five covers (out of ten tracks) on this somewhat short 35-minute disc point toward the singer/songwriter's influences. From Smokey Robinson (a rather rushed "Being with You") to the Lemonheads ("Ride with Me") and NRBQ (a hot rockabilly "It Comes to Me Naturally" that seems more like a Nick Lowe composition in Borges' version) with a stop off at the Magnetic Fields (the slow twangy ballad "No One Will Ever Love You"), it's clear Borges takes her pop/Americana seriously and digs deep for obscure gems. That's particularly true as she uncovers a nifty Any Trouble new wave pop nugget from the late '70s called "Yesterday's Love." The road-hardened Broken Singles band follows her lead from the Pretenders-styled "I'll Show You How" to the '60s-influenced midtempo "Me and Your Ghost," a song that would fit into a scene from Diner.
Track List (try tracks 1,3,5,6 and 8)

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