Name: Sign of Truth
Brand: Rounder Select
SKU: 18709
Price: 16.3 GBP
Availability: InStock

Performer Notes

Personnel: Tish Hinojosa (vocals, guitar, piano); Marvin Dykhuis (guitar, charango, mandolin, 6-string bass, percussion, background vocals); David Grissom (guitar); Lloyd Maines (steel guitar); Eamon McLaughlin (violin); Chip Dolan (accordion, piano, organ, synthesizer); Joel Guzman (accordion, piano); Dan Torosian (saxophone); Rick White (trumpet); Randy Zimmerman (trombone); Glenn Kawamoto (bass); Rafael O'Malley Gayol (drums); Jose Galeano (congas, timbales, percussion); Fred Remmert, Dave McNair (tambourine); Sara Hickman, Margo Timmons (background vocals).
Engineers include: Fred Remmert, Dave McNair, Bob Cobban.
Recorded at Cedar Creek Studios, The Hit Shack & Brooklyn Bridge Studios, Austin, Texas; Studio 306, Toronto, Canada.
Personnel: Tish Hinojosa (vocals, guitar, piano); Marvin Denton Dykhuis (guitar, charango, mandolin, 6-string bass, percussion, background vocals); David Grissom (electric guitar); Chip Dolan (accordion, piano, organ, synthesizer); Rick White (trumpet); Randy Zimmerman (trombone); Dave McNair, Fred Remmert (tambourine); Sara Hickman (background vocals).
Audio Mixers: Dave McNair; Fred Remmert; Bob Cobban; Joe Hayden.
Recording information: Brooklyn Bridge Studio, Austin, TX; Cedar Creek Studios, Austin, TX; Studio 306, Toronto, Canada; The hit Shack, Austin, TX.
Illustrator: Sara Hickman.
Photographers: Todd V. Wolfson; Sara Hickman.
Tish Hinojosa has been ahead of the curve of some time. Her music is a superb amalgam of country, American and Mexican folk, Tex-Mex/conjunto, and pop, and she's a worthy contemporary of similar performers such as Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris and Peter Rowan. SIGN OF TRUTH is something of a departure from her earlier releases.
Here Hinjosa tries for a fuller "pop" sound, but it's pop in the Burt Bacharach/Brian Wilson mode, rather than in the Britney Spears sense, with more keyboards and tasteful, restrained electric guitars. The jaunty, joy-filled "Wildflowers" could be an outtake from a late '60s Beach Boys album, with a hook recalling a mellow summertime of sweet soul music. The reflective "The Dreams I Have Seen" mixes jangly tremolo guitars, and sounds like R.E.M. playing Jimmy Webb, with Hinojosa's dulcet, clear soprano gliding towards the heavens. She doesn't forsake her roots, though, as evidenced by the haunting Tex-Mex/Western-flavored ballad "Mona Lisa By the Rio Grande." SIGN demonstrates Hinojosa's growth and range, with no compromise of vision.

Professional Reviews

CMJ (5/22/00, p.33) - "...Hinojosa's pure vocal approach reflects both romantic Mexican music and '60s folk pop a la Joni Mitchell."

No Depression (5-6/00, pp.116-7) - "...One of the most accomplished genre-melders of the [Tex-Mex] turf....SIGN OF TRUTH is a great-sounding disc, with lots of wide-open prairie ambience...and plenty of room for Hinojosa's crystalline voice to shine..."

Album: Sign of Truth
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Sigh of Truth
2)	Mona Lisa by the Rio Grande
3)	Fire in Winter
4)	Taste of Dying Summer
5)	Fence Post
6)	Roses Around My Feet
7)	I Have No Answers
8)	Hey Little Love
9)	Wild Flowers
10)	Faded Souvenir
11)	Dreams I Have Seen, The
12)	Song for the Journey

Album: Sign of Truth
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Sigh of Truth
2)	Mona Lisa by the Rio Grande
3)	Fire in Winter
4)	Taste of Dying Summer
5)	Fence Post
6)	Roses Around My Feet
7)	I Have No Answers
8)	Hey Little Love
9)	Wild Flowers
10)	Faded Souvenir
11)	Dreams I Have Seen, The
12)	Song for the Journey