Sarah Borges

06.02.2005 -- Review by: Stephen Hug

Review of Sarah Borges’ CD “Silver City”
By Steve Hug
Emcee, Narrows Center for the Arts
Fall River, MA

This young woman kicks ass!

If you like twangy country with hard rock sensibilities, “Silver City” by twenty-something Sarah Borges should be in your CD player.

{mosimage}Sarah and her band recently opened for Grace Potter and the Nocturnals at the Narrows Center for the Arts
in Fall River and gave Grace and her talented crew a run for the
money. Sarah sings with reckless abandon—without screaming—and a
powerful, striking voice that will capture the attention of even the
most jaded audience. She grabs you by the ears and shakes you
until you pay attention!

“Silver City” is
the nickname for Taunton, Massachusetts, which is a few miles from Fall
River and the community she apparently was raised in—although she
sounds like she’s from the Lone Star State. Quite a commute for
an admissions counselor at Boston’s Berklee School of Music.

Cut
after cut is filled with old-fashioned countrified, whiskey-soaked
angst stirred and shaken with rock-hard rhythm and impassioned
instrumentation. Some tunes fall into the rockabilly genre;
others remind me of the Eagles during their “Long Run” period, although
Sarah on this CD—and in concert—never gets Eagley-sweet. She’s in
your face, like Courtney Love, whom her producer worked with. But
Sarah is no producer’s creation. In concert she sounds exactly
like she does on record.

At this writing, she’s performing in Texas, then heading up through Tennessee, North Carolina, etc. She’ll be opening for Rosie Flores at the Narrows Center for the Arts on Saturday, July 23.

“Silver City” has been hot on the Americana radio charts for awhile, and is available through Blue Corn Music, which is an Austin-based label.

Check out the Sarah Borges website at http://www.sarahborges.com/

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