Like Trina Hamlin’s Foundation, all beautiful things are best laid bare....
author: Mary Edwards
Setting the blueprint for her own legendary status, Trina Hamlin is simply a genuine soul who knowingly speaks for each of us who revel in both the joy and pain of longing. Her most recent, sonically architected offering, Foundation is a highly personal, emotionally penetrating popcraft guaranteed to create an unbreakable empathetic bond with her legions of listeners. Stripped down to the essentials, this album exemplifies that less is more. As sure as you’re alive, it’s textured enough to give you a range of sensation, to feel something …whether you’re in or out of love for what always seems like the first of the millionth time.
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In two words: Own it!
author: Charlie
I have only listened to "Foundation" once but I already feel a need to rate it. And that´s because it is so beautiful. Just guitar, harmonica and voice - boring? Not at all, not if it is Trina Hamlin you´re listening to. A haunting deep voice, very pretty and original melodies and the aura of a pure folk-soul. I am so proud to be an owner of this wonderful CD.
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Completely mesmerized
author: Patty
I have recently become the proud owner of her "Foundation"
CD. I am completely mesmerized and I find myself pushing the replay button each time the CD ends, and it always seems to end way to soon.
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Deep, strong voice and vital lyrics backed up by badass harmonica
author: Mark Damon Puckett
When you first hear Leave, the second song on Foundation, you search for where you might have listened to it previously. Then you realize that there is such a familiarity in all of the songs on this album that Trina Hamlin has done something all soulful pop musicians wish they could do: revivify. At first I thought One Good Reason sounded like Tina Turner's earlier amazing work. You Can't Remember is moving and soft at the beginning but builds to this chilling intensity that gets in your blood. This honest, brilliant cd manages to highlight a distinct voice (and one hell of a harmonica player) and sound utterly new while constantly referring to its obvious blues, soul and alternative pop roots. A unity is achieved as these sounds fuse together. In a word, impressive. In five, impressive, impressive, impressive, impressive, impressive.
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