Label Rock Ridge Music
Release Date Oct 12, 2010
Photographers: Jett Beres; Ken Block; Ryan Newell.
Personnel: Ken Block (vocals, acoustic guitar); Andrew Copeland (vocals); Ryan Newell (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, mandolin, background vocals); Jett Beres (piano, bass guitar); Mark Trojanowski (drums).
Audio Mixer: Chip Matthews.
Sister Hazel's "Heartland Highway" follows on the heels of the band's most-recent album, "Release." Sister Hazel's world is rich in loyal fans, and now a brand new album, "Heartland Highway", featuring all new tracks written and produced by the 5 band members.
01. Great Escape 3:22
02. Stay Awhile 4:00
03. Far Away 4:42
04. Let The Fire Burn 3:08
05. At Your Worst 3:16
06. The Saddest Song (Not Coming Home) 4:35
07. Where You're Going 2:49
08. Complicate 3:13
09. She's Got A Hold On Me 3:47
10. Lessons In Love, Hope & Faith: Part 1. The Road 5:14
11. Lessons In Love, Hope & Faith: Part 2. Snow Globe World 4:16
12. Lessons In Love, Hope & Faith: Part 3. Behind The Sun 6:26
There may be no more appropriate title for a Sister Hazel album than Heartland Highway. The group is one of those unheralded working bands that keep traveling up and down the American highway, never straying far from their initial blueprint but satisfying the devoted year in and year out. Heartland Highway, like the seven albums that precede it, will satisfy those fans but that doesn't mean the band is coasting. There is ambition here in the three-part closing suite "Lessons in Love, Hope, and Faith," a triptych of love and loss and the road that's the spiritual anchor of the album, and the album overall plays as a song cycle where the bandmembers attempt to come to terms with a life lived on the road. These subtle thematic differences are enough to make Heartland Highway something a little more than just another Sister Hazel record. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Recording information: Best Western Hotel, Gainesville, FL (02/2010-03/2010); Bob And Cindy Carnes Condo (02/2010-03/2010); Ryan's Basement Studio, Atlanta, GA (02/2010-03/2010); The Tin Ear, Nashville, TN (02/2010-03/2010); Vibe Studio, Nashville, TN (02/2010-03/2010); Best Western Hotel, Gainesville, FL (04/2010-05/2010); Bob And Cindy Carnes Condo (04/2010-05/2010); Ryan's Basement Studio, Atlanta, GA (04/2010-05/2010); The Tin Ear, Nashville, TN (04/2010-05/2010); Vibe Studio, Nashville, TN (04/2010-05/2010); Best Western Hotel, Gainesville, FL (05/2010); Bob And Cindy Carnes Condo (05/2010); Ryan's Basement Studio, Atlanta, GA (05/2010); The Tin Ear, Nashville, TN (05/2010); Vibe Studio, Nashville, TN (05/2010); Best Western Hotel, Gainesville, FL (06/2010); Bob And Cindy Carnes Condo (06/2010); Ryan's Basement Studio, Atlanta, GA (06/2010); The Tin Ear, Nashville, TN (06/2010); Vibe Studio, Nashville, TN (06/2010).