Page 1
Index


Take a spin with Golden Graham's choice album reviews

Janet, Rhonda and Donna Sisters of The Silver Sage

Swingin' & Trail Dreamin'

SSS

 
 

Sisters of the Silver Sage Donna Whiting Guffey, Rhonda Whiting and Janet Whiting Giles are three daughters of Smoky White, a long time member of the Grand Ole Opry who played fiddle for Archie Sisters Of The Silver Sage with their Will Rogers award from the Academy of Western Artists"Grandpappy" Campbell (of Hee Haw fame). They released their much acclaimed self-titled CD around 2002, plus a Christmas CD in 2005. In 2003 The Sisters received the Western Song Of The Year award for "He's A Cowboy" from the Academy Of Western Artists, following in 2004 with the AWA award for Western Group/Duo Of The Year.

Their long awaited CD Swingin' & Trail Dreamin', released June 2006 is quickly drawing great interest on the western scene and radio. Thirteen tracks full of western swing and western themes, the Sisters are on course for another success with their winning formula.

musician and songwriter Jon ScottDonna contributes seven of the tracks on the album and collaborates with sister Janet on the dreamy "Down In Mexico". Band member Jon Scott makes his songwriting debut and contributes the expressive and lonesome harmonica on the poignant "Some Old Rusty Spurs" based on the theme that spurs and hats tell their own stories of the years gone by. "El Dorado" (Guffey) picks up the pace a little with a tale of the Lost City Of Gold and the lost love that a dying man longingly remembers for a lovely Indian maid of his youth. Western Swing is represented by the inclusion of the two-steppin' "Sweetheart Sweetie Mine" (R. Whiting), "Blue Side of Texas" (Guffey) and "Texas Cowboys Always Break Your Heart" (Guffey). With cashing thunder, the imagination conjuring flashes of lightening adding an atmospheric touch, plus The SistersCD cover unique blending of harmonies they rekindle the western standard "Ghost Riders In the Sky". Another standard can be found with The Sisters pleasant rendition of "Streets Of Laredo".

Musicians contributing their talents to Swingin' & Trail Dreamin' include Jon Scott - acoustic guitar and harmonica, Charlie "Bob" Perkins - fiddle, Stony Stonecipher - steel guitar. The Sisters lovingly dedicate the CD to their sister Alyce who lost her fight against cancer in 2005. Swingin' & Trail Dreamin' is brought to a close with the lilting "The Bonny Land, America", telling of a young Irish girl who reminisces with pearls of tenderness about her homeland and the long journey across the great ocean. A well-crafted album with a glint of gold at the end of a musical rainbow.
July 2006
check out Sisters of the Silver Sage Website