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Come Up Full
Meg Hutchinson
Come Up Full
Genres: Folk, Pop
 
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The radiant artistry of Meg Hutchinson combines brilliant songwriting with raw poetic storytelling and a riveting performance style. The multi-award winning artist's Red House Records debut COME UP FULL is a wistful and wa...  more »

     
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All Artists: Meg Hutchinson
Title: Come Up Full
Members Wishing: 5
Total Copies: 0
Label: Red House
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 3/4/2008
Genres: Folk, Pop
Style: Traditional Folk
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 033651020929

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The radiant artistry of Meg Hutchinson combines brilliant songwriting with raw poetic storytelling and a riveting performance style. The multi-award winning artist's Red House Records debut COME UP FULL is a wistful and warm album showcasing her sweet, earthy vocals framed by tastefully intimate production, establishing her as one of the rising stars and great voices of the next generation of acoustic musicians. Produced by Crit Harmon (Lori McKenna, Martin Sexton, Mary Gauthier), COME UP FULL is a lyrically rich album about encountering good things when you least expect it. Amidst war, loss and heartbreak, Hutchinson's songs hold the promise of love, hope and homecomings. In songs like Ready, Home, and Come Up Full, she sings about our universal ability to overcome life's most trying times. With a poet's sensibility, Hutchinson's songs are laced with a weathered but unselfconscious optimism, a love of language and of the natural world. In America (Enough) she explores American culture, excess and war by writing about how things taken to an extreme almost become their opposite. Another timely tune is Song for Jeffrey Lucey, based on the real story of Lance Corporal Jeffrey Lucey, who returned from Iraq suffering from severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). "I heard about Jeffrey Lucey and was devastated by his story but incredibly moved by how his family spoke out about PTSD," Hutchinson says. Whether tackling political issues or matters of the heart, Hutchinson's insight into human resilience sparkles with songs dissecting the pain that gives our lives greater depth and a deeper appreciation of joy.

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CD Reviews

Top American Songwriter
William J. Ritchotte | Boston, MA | 04/12/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Meg Hutchinson continues to prove she belongs at the top of the next wave of american song writers. Her

layered, thoughtful compositions are a perfect match for a voice that carries more weight than her frame would have you believe. Every song brings a truth from life that is seldom celebrated on mainstream radio, and what a shame. Maybe one of these deserving songs will find it's way to an Apple commercial or an episode of Grey's Anatomy. Meg deserves the audience that would bring."
Worth the wait
plynck | Nawth of Bawstin | 05/27/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Having worn a hole through "The Crossing", I was eager to pick up Meg's new CD. It was worth every moment of anticipation, but it leaves some difficulty in comparing the two. I could say that it reflects a more mature sensibility in writing, but that would imply some immaturity before, which is certainly not the case. I could say that it displays a new optimism, but it isn't as if "The Crossing" was pessimistic. To say that it reveals a confidence and self-assurance would suggest that her earlier work was timid. I guess that I'll just have to say that this seems to me to be one further step in her journey toward a bright new day.



The song for me that ties it all together is "Home". It both poignant and anthemic, the sort of song you play over and over again."
Seeing Stars
Lee Armstrong | Winterville, NC United States | 08/23/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I read an excellent review of "Come Up Full," which made me look at it for a number of months on my wish list before actually popping over the cash for the disc. What a delight! Hutchinson has a strong and expressive voice that wraps herself around her lovely melodies and lyrics. The opener "Ready" is a strong song whose beautiful melody masks its lyrical complexity, "The trolley screams and lurches towards the city & I stare at my own eyes in the glass & I smile to think how far I've come from the dull roar of loss & everything seems quiet now." "Home" slows the pace reflecting restlessness and ultimately hope, "But if the world should really pale, Dark night of the soul is real, Let me offer I've been there and one day that darkness clears." "Good Day to Die" swims upstream with a simple melody brushing against pulsing percussion as Meg's lovely voice flits through countless nervous thoughts as she boards a plane. "Seeing Stars" has a lovely folk melody with Meg's personality popping out of every lyrical phrase, "If you look real close you might see scars, But me, yeah me, I'm only seeing stars." "Song for Jeffrey Lucey" is a difficult song about the ravages war takes on a soldier with Hutchinson's voice so clear and expressive. Several other songs like "Climbing Mountains" and the gorgeous title track "Come Up Full" are also breathtaking. This is a stunning set of modern folk music from an exquisitely talented artist. Bravo!"