Sara Bareilles

Bottle It Up
$6.49
I brought "Bottle It Up" by Sara Bareilles. Don't get me wrong. The music is good, but buying "Little Voice" would have been a better purchase.

Between the Line: Sara Bareilles Live at the Fillmore (Amaray)
$14.98
Sara shows her sassy side in this live CD/DVD -- her music is an easy listen, with a ton of lyrics which I can relate to. Loved her cover of Sitting on The Dock Of The Bay.

Little Voice
$9.99
October 30th, 2009

Songs such as the longing of 'City' and calmness of 'Between The Lines' set the mood perfectly. 'Love Song', 'One Sweet Love' and 'Come Round Soon' are also very solid tracks. The delight that is 'Many The Miles' and the sadness of 'Gravity' pull you in (no pun intended). And the piano in 'Love On The Rocks' is pretty cool. But on the disc, Sara didn't even play it; Jamie Muhoberac did.

I just got the actual CD today and 'Morningside' is filler to me. But the rest of the tracks are OK, but nothing great. 'Bottle It Up', the second single off the album was never a track I loved, but it is OK. I did always like how she uses the s-word in said song.

Inside the booklet, it says who played what instrument in the beginning of the lyrics to each song and it also lets you know that Sara Bareilles wrote every track by herself towards the end of the booklet, except said 'Love On The Rocks' which was co-written by Javier Dunn.

4 stars from me.

Download:
City
Love On The Rocks
Many The Miles
Gravity
Love Song

Edit: Wiki says that Sara is working hard on her next project and she is collaborating with Questlove from The experimental rap group The Roots. There is no due date so far. I would like to see her do an R&B-flavored song or two, but I actually don't want her to change up her style completely. I think if she crafts what she works with, she can come even harder with her sophomore effort.

Gravity
$0.99
I accidentally watched the video of Sara Bareilles performing her song, "Gravity," from the same-named album the other day. I was stunned at the quality of the musical composition, the piano styling, the voice and delivery of Ms. Bareilles. I bought the album on CD, added the MP3 version of her song, "Gravity," to my two computers and sent it around the world as a suggestion to a dozen friends to listen and then do as I did: buy the CD. The feedback I got from friends as disparately apart as Mexico, Cyprus and Israel was gratifying.

Ms. Bareilles is a gift to her listeners. Her story is improbable, while her success is most deserved. I look forward to listening to her for many years into the future, and to purchasing her other CDs.