All I can say about this album is that after I listened I was truly thirsty for some sweet tea. The recipe for this sweet tea is actually on the CD package. If the tea is as good as the music that will be a tasty and satisfying beverage. I must admit that I was totally new to Hills Rolling but I got familiar very quick. For those that do not know this band is actually a one-man band. Trey McGriff who resides & lives in Georgia plays all the instruments and takes care of the vocals as well. Talk about a multi-talented musician. Trey is well known all over Georgia in the most well known venues as he plays around 60-70 shows a year. Trey also knows about musical brand integration. His music is a favorite over at Red Bull. He plays Gibson, Fender, & Martin Guitars. The more I learned about Trey the more impressed I became. This CD is an overall good time from start to finish. The packaging is simple and environmentally safe than the hard plastic cases. The CD has 9 songs and comes in at just under 30 minutes in length. The sound quality is perfect on this album. You can hear that it was recorded & mastered in a top of the line studio in GA. My favorite sounding track is, “Watching Waves.” That track just flows and sounds perfect. My favorite hit on this CD is, “Not Again.” I must have played this track 7 times already. I just cannot get enough. As for the songwriting that was a tough call. If I had to pick I would say, track 5, “Laugh Out Loud.” I just feel that all the tracks were of equal songwriting capacity. They were very well written & constructed. I know that this CD came out in 2007 but here at Skope we do not believe that any music has an expiration date. I assure you that you will be able to enjoy this CD in 2011 as well. Review By: Mikey Frieds www.myspace.com/hillsrolling

“Sweet Tea” is the debut CD from Hills Rolling, the latest project by Atlanta’s Trey McGriff. McGriff not only wrote, arranged and produced all the songs on the CD but also plays all the instruments and provides all the vocals. The first song, “Crazie,” kicks off the CD with catchy lyrics and a driving rock beat peppered with southern flavor, setting the up-tempo tone for the rest of the songs. “Not Again,” “No I Don’t Mind At All,” “Here And Now” and “Waiting On You” shift between various multi-layered effects of harmonica, bongos and vocal harmonies for their individual flair. On “Watching Waves,” the sparse lyrics, “Standing in the ocean / Watching the waves roll by, roll by,” open the song up for the instrumental jam that follows before closing out with the same lyrics. The acoustic “Laugh Out Loud” and the sci-fi-tinged instrumental “Middle Of Nowhere” illustrates the diversity of McGriff’s songs. The prominent bass line on “Slow Down” creates a retro ‘60s vibe through the song as the lyrics chronicle the kind of day no one wants to have: “Everything was going okay until I started my day / Things started to unravel then I wish I had stayed at home.” While the musicianship is impressive, the downside to being a one-man band is the lack of probability to recreate the music in a live show, and for an indie performer like McGriff that is one of the best ways to secure new fans and sell CDs. (Whiskey Child Records) -Kat Coffin

Hills Rolling, out of Atlanta, Georgia, is one guy, that being Trey McGriff, who plays everything (and everything is quite a bit) on SWEET TEA, his debut release. While McGriff's myspace page lists a laundry list of influences (as well as a quite fetching young lady doing a simply wonderful job modeling a Hills Rolling tee shirt), not all of them are obviously manifested on SWEET TEA (Tom Petty and Neil Young, Si! Danzig, Diddy, and Rob Zombie? Uh, no), although "Watching Waves" almost sounds like an acoustic collaboration between Tom Petty and Perry Farrell. SWEET TEA is nine tracks and just under thirty minutes long, and is oddly appealing. Or maybe charming is a better word. McGriff is not a wonderful lyricist, but he's not bad, either, and I can hear strains of real word scribe talent bubbling around in these songs and occasionally bubbling to the surface. "How Much Time" is a good example: "How much time/will it take to walk beside you/I don't mind/if it seems to take forever." It's a simple lyric, but perfectly captures that angst of loving, unrequited from afar. It's not Bob Dylan, but it doesn't have to be, either. Where I really got drawn into SWEET TEA, however, was on the melodies and arrangements of the tracks. I kept get sucked more and more deeply into the disc after listening to it repeatedly. The arrangements aren't spare, exactly, but McGriff successfully resists the temptation, if any, to throw the everything and the kitchen sink into the mix and then hide behind it. If "Middle Of Nowhere," the only instrumental on SWEET TEA, is a bit self-indulgent, it's not excessively so, and it made me realize --- surprise! --- that I missed McGriff's vocals. A word about those. McGriff does not have a wide vocal range, and he realizes it. His material is suited for his somewhat breathy voice, and if he doesn't have perfect pitch, he's not doing that screeching and yodeling or whatever you want to call it that Dave Mathews does, and that makes me want to open a vein. No, this is the voice of the guy in your college dormitory who plays guitar and writes decent, occasionally great, songs about things you care about and can identify with ("Waiting On You," "Not Again"), and who you can sit and listen to for two or three hours without a break. That's Trey McGriff, and that's SWEET TEA. SWEET TEA left me wanting at least another glass of Hills Rolling. Or three. Myriad influences notwithstanding, this is good, basic, songwriting with many strengths and few frills. It's worth listening to several times, and more. - www.music-reviewer.com

It’s almost summer! How about some sweet tea? No, not that kind of sweet tea; the kind of Sweet Tea I am suggesting is the latest release from Hills Rolling, the “band” that only consists of brainchild Trey McGriff, who performs every duty on the album. McGriff has both talent and versatility to perform many instruments, but upon listening to the songs on Sweet Tea, it isn’t difficult to catch the basic beats and lyrics while appreciating his potential as a musician and performer. For those that haven’t heard him before, McGriff’s previous musical credits include The Real World – Denver, and XM Satellite Radio. He has also opened for bands such as Molly Hatchet and Finger Eleven. “Crazie” is the opening track and perhaps the strongest one, flavored with a seventies style with modern rock blended in; “Not Again” is reminiscent to the songs of the nineties, “Grave Dancers Union” will remind listeners of groups such as the Spin Doctors, and there is the slightly psychedelic sound present on “Not Again.” Sweet Tea is one of those albums that touches on a variety of genres while allowing McGriff to show that there is no time like the present; it would be difficult to choose a single from this album, they are all so well executed and totally “sweet” from beginning to end. For cool sounds for the coming hot season, Sweet Tea is a winning bet!