Tierney Sutton - On The Other Side

"...Tierney Sutton possesses an exquisitely pure vocal instrument, but chops alone do not guarantee that a singer will get under your skin. On The Other Side goes deep. It is a daring act of musical and personal self-exposure. Sutton has never before taken such chances...On The Other Side represents an engineering achievement commensurate with its artistic realization. Telarc engineer Robert Friedrich recorded it live to 8-track with a Sonoma Direct Stream Digital workstation...It is the sampling rate and dynamic range of SACD that make the lifelike naturalness of Sutton's voice sound effortless. It is the frequency response of SACD that retains all the clusters of harmonics generated by complex sources of sound like Jacob's piano." Recording of the Month - Thomas Conrad, Stereophile, April 2007

The Tierney Sutton Band's most focused statement yet, On The Other Side is a bold recording – full of mystery, darkness and a tentative reemergence from the shadows. The 13-track set begins and ends with the same two classic songs – "Get Happy" and "Happy Days Are Here Again." Sutton and her band recorded On The Other Side in August 2006 at the legendary Capitol Studios in Los Angeles. Their sixth Telarc release also features the outstanding work of trumpeter/vocalist Jack Sheldon on two tracks.

"On The Other Side is easily a masterpiece, taking happy songs and making them introspective, melancholy, ironic, and adult…There are works of art in this world of ours…like Frank Sinatra's In the Wee Small Hours, Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain, and the Beatles' White Album. Tierney Sutton's On The Other Side joins that rarified group because it is eloquent, honest and magnificently sung and played." – Business Week, December 2006