Alanna Gurr: Alanna Gurr

[Benjamin A. Vazquez U.E.]

Alanna Gurr

Artist: Alanna Gurr
Album: Alanna Gurr
Year: 2010
CD#: 49983
Best Tracks: #1, #2, #4, #5
Comments Overall: Quiet. Quaint, admittedly. Very, very sweet. Guitar and vocals with occasional backup. An extraordinarily sweet voice.

1. Take the Streets, 3:30 - Slow. Quaint. Rebellious. "Lets take the streets, see what people need..." Fades out at the end.
2. Chapel, 2:53 - Slow. Steady rhythym. Sweet. Fades out at the end.
3. Lovely Girl, 4:11 - Strong guitar. Voice and guitar alone for first half. Male back-up vocals comes in halfway through. Becomes fuller and more complex towards the end.
4. October, 2:46 - Strong guitar. Active piece. Moves along nicely. Ends suddenly.
5. The Lake, 1:27 - Lovely vocals. Lovely melody. An excellent short ditty.
6. Heart, 3:24 - Deeper vocals. Sad. Alana and a male singer.

Note: Also posted under Indie.

MySpace: www.myspace.com/alannagurr

[Benjamin A. Vazquez U.E.]

Some things remind you of home.

For me, they can be the oddest things. Cows sillhoutted in the setting sun, or a tree whose branches are encased in ice. That, and random music. Long hours whiled away in the basement listening to my cousin strumming on his guitar. Calm. Quiet. Heartwarming.

Alanna Gurr has captured that feeling perfectly. I can't listen to this C.D. without imagining her and a few friends clustered in a living room simply enjoying themselves and their music.

Some things remind you of home. Faces and names. Grandparents and parents. Aunts and uncles. Crowded Thanksgiving dinners, and long walks in the woods.

Alanna Gurr has captured that feeling perfectly, too. This C.D. is full of life. It feels backed by a deep, abiding love, it oozes sentimentality of the finest and most wonderful kind.

Some things remind you of home. Lovers and sweethearts. Holding hands in a deserted park. Romance that intends something more than a day, or even a week. Promises. And, someday, children.

Alanna Gurr has captured that feeling perfectly, too. This C.D. begs to be snuggled into. That magnificent voice tugs at you. It inspires dreams of candlelit evenings and children playing on tree-lined streets.

Not bad, on the whole, for six tracks.

- Reviewed by Benjamin A. Vazquez, U.E.