We Are Here by Whit Hill & the Postcards

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Country Folk | Folk Blues

14 tracks | 60 minutes

Released Nov 2003
on Home Run Records

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This "beatnik"-style Detroit-area alt-country band fronted by singer/songwriter (and woman) Whit Hill offers story songs, groove songs, and ballads blending twanging country, organ-laced soul and the luscious boom-boom-crack of southern rock.

Editorial review

Though she's well-known nationally as an award-winning choreographer, and as a backing vocalist for Dick Siegel's former band the Na Nas, We Are Here is Whit Hill's debut album as a singer/songwriter. The album collects 14 songs that run the gamut from garagey alt country to raucous hillbilly gospel, bluegrass, blues, jazz, and rock and roll. Musically, Hill's tunes are all over the place. There's the rambling Bill Monroe delight in "Maddie," a tune about Hill's real life growin'-up-pal Madonna, that's genuinely warm and funny, and not a name dropping exercise, the hipster jazz spoken word on "Tone/Shift," the stomping two-step honky tonk country in "Last Saturday," (that Nashville doesn't have the guts to touch), and the Crazy Horse-styled rock and roll of "Valentine." Hill's band, the Postcards, led by husband, backing vocalist, keyboard boss, and guitar slinger Al Hill, smoke. They could back anybody and make them sound like the glorious heart of Saturday night. Because of his guidance, this band takes Hill's words and music, sets them in their appropriate genre, and spices virtually every track with either a dollop or a wallop of rhythm and blues. Hill's tomes are striking, often moving vignettes; they are microcosmic slices of everyday life relegated to the place of story and legend in her personal iconography. And yes, they are beautiful, even glorious in places. She writes about tender, mischievous, circus performers ("Greatest Show On Earth"), gangland barroom massacres ("Valentine,") and broken-love songs ("Oh Well," "50 Miles To Detroit," and "Platinum Girl"). And Hill's "in love" songs are the tastiest and sassiest around. There are the steamy, shimmering lounge blues of "Sleeper Car," and the strutting, tough sensuality that insists at the kitchen table for something other than breakfast in "Please Pass You." In essence, Hill's works infuses both Gothic and funky notions of American life born of personal experience and imaginary realms, and nudges them gently and irreverently into the terrain where they become transcendent myths we can all plug into with either a chuckle, a smile, a nod, or a tear. Ultimately, as fine as this record is, full of energy, delight, and glorious freshness -- it is as cool and deftly done as anything to come out of Detroit in the 21st century (this act has plenty of street cred even if they do bathe and have addresses) -- it most likely only hints at what a treasure trove their live performances are. Yeah, just get it. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

Bio / Background

The reviews are in on Whit Hill and the Postcards' new CD, We Are Here...

"For most artists who actually manage the feat, recording a masterpiece is a career-long effort. For Whit Hill, it took a single shot. "We Are Here," suffused with intelligence and champion songcraft, isn't just the best debut album in recent Detroit memory, it's one of the top 2003 premieres by anybody anywhere..."--Detroit Free Press

"...Whit Hill and her band the Postcards have concocted a folk-based country and blues record (with the occasional jazz gesture) that is both a surprise and a welcome relief... .Many of the songs here could be the soundtrack to front porches lined with the world-weary eyes of old men aligned in cane-bottom chairs sipping beer snagged from Styrofoam coolers..."

--Detroit MetroTimes

"Hill's evocative and thoughtful lyrics, nostalgia-tinged vocals and crackerjack band all work to make 'We Are Here' a standout.