Consumer Critique: The Littlest Prisoner

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The Littlest Prisoner is a recent release from violinist, composer and arranger Jenny Scheinman. Scheinman says that she “had always imagined that this album would have a sort of Buddy Miller acoustic Americana sound,” however, “as fate would have it I ended up bringing the material into the ethereal, moody, stripped down world of my trio with Bill Frisell and Brian Blade. This added a sense of newness, risk and adventure to the process, which was extremely exciting.”

As for the lyrics, Scheinman says “I attempted to look directly at love and all its ugly beauty through the eyes of mothers, inmates, wives, artists, and children. What amazes me about the album is that all the tough stuff of life is stuck in the middle of such a beautiful band sound.”

It is a beautiful album. At times melancholy, other times sweet, it's lyrical and heartfelt. The raw emotions tug at heartstrings and make this an album well worth listening to.

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