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Artist: Anna Sheer
Album: Beautiful Waters
CD Review: Anna Sheer is a beautiful girl – with talent. Clicking on her simple website, checking out her performance dates, I’m impressed. She’s played a Lot, and just about everywhere in her area, since 1999. I reviewed her previous cd, Dreamer, last year. The reason I don’t remember it has nothing to do with quality, but the quantity of submissions I’m getting.

Beautiful Waters has a girl’s charm, something that has to be worked through in order to become a wonderful adult. It’s not a great album, but it’s interesting. If that answer sounds wishy washy, it isn’t. Beautiful Waters keeps my interest, like an unexpected tv show you suddenly switch onto; you keep the channel on, wondering where it’s going. Personally, I like the middle tunes better than the way it begins, especially ‘Mine,’ a very catchy love song.

It is an album for young lovers still exploring themselves and the world. The only thing it lacks is what we all lack – cash. In a fairer world, Anna would have a power-playing agent who would get her a big deal and she’d be barely audible singing over dance tracks. As is, Anna’s a Sheer breath of relief, and should give us all a pause in our pessimism.


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