Learn to Sing Like a Star

Studio album by Kristin Hersh

Released

January 23, 2007

Genre

Indie rock

Length

41:20

Label

4AD, Yep Roc Records

Producer

Kristin Hersh

Kristin Hersh chronology

The Grotto
(2003)

Learn to Sing Like a Star
(2007)

Cats and Mice
(2010)

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Learn to Sing Like a Star is Kristin Hersh's seventh solo album and was released in the US on Yep Roc Records on the 23 January 2007 and on 4AD for the rest of the world on the 29 January. The album was produced by Kristin herself and mixed in Nashville by two time Grammy winner Trina Shoemaker. It features her Throwing Muses bandmate David Narcizo on drums and with strings by the McCarricks. The album peaked at #27 on the US's Billboard Top Heatseekers Album Chart.

Touring

In early 2007 Hersh toured throughout Europe and the US to promote the album, first solo in a series of instore performances and then with her 50 Foot Wave band mates Bernard Georges and Rob Ahlers as well as The McCarricks. In October 2007 she will do a short tour of Australia and New Zealand.

Track listing

all songs written by Kristin Hersh

In Shock
Nerve Endings
DayGlo
Christian Hearse
Ice
Under The Gun
Piano 1
Sugarbaby
Peggy Lee
Piano 2
Vertigo
Winter
Wild Vanilla
The Thin Man

External links

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