Act Your Age
It’s hard to review a cd sung and produced by one of your favourite people. In fact, Sheila Gibbs figures prominently every time I take the Dalai Lama’s pig/cow/sheep/tiger/horse sea/cat/coffee/dog/rat/colours test, which is nothing to sneeze at. Achoo!
As for Ernestine Hatpin and her ‘friend’ Tim Gibbs (mooooo…!), their songs are funny, sweet, tender, melodic, funny, clear (as in “they sang and played with clarity”), harmonic, lively, funny, emotionally honest and never patronizing, instrumentally rich, memorable, funny, unexpectedly (because this is a kids’ cd, after all) diverse, and suitable for all ages.
I thought I might regret the absence of Picnic Time for Teddy Bears, but Act Your Age is an original work, and I would have been happy if each track had been “I Like Farm Trucks” (big, red, rolling down the dirt road, which, I am partly ashamed to admit, I have sung loudly even under the influence of a little Cuveé).
That said, the entire cd, start to finish, is a delight, and I am thrilled to tell all of you music lovers out there to check out the site, listen to the tunes, and pony up! I have already corralled a few happy listeners – Felix, Samantha, Adam, Zoe, Eve, Lainey and Blue – who will be more than eager to offer up testimonials as soon as they learn how to print.
As for Sheila and Tim, they are probably the only people on Facebook who can actually call all those people friends.
Act Your Age
Mastered at Wolf Mastering, Nashville TN
And for a really great sample –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRG7Q99Ng50&feature=youtube_gdata
