Sara Hickman shows her dark side on Motherlode

Aug. 23, 2006
Houston Chronicle
By EILEEN MCCLELLAND
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle
Sara Hickman says she has a dark side.
The creator of whimsical children’s albums and sunny pop-folk ballads is out to prove her edge with a new, stylistically diverse double album, Motherlode.
One disc is solemn… Continue reading

Two dimensions of womanhood from Sara Hickman
New double CD ‘Motherlode’ takes on a complex range of emotional colors
By Brad Buchholz
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Friday, June 30, 2006
After recording and performing music for children the past several years, Austin singer-songwriter Sara Hickman swings back into adult… Continue reading

Acts of giving are basic part of Hickman’s life
By Brad Buchholz
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Friday, June 30, 2006

Singer Sara Hickman stands alone with her acoustic guitar before another packed house, an audience that has been stomping, screeching, squealing and even… Continue reading

Mother’s Lode
Sara Hickman hides the breast–but not much else–on her latest double-disc album
By Sander Wolf
Sara Hickman’s last concert at Poor David’s Pub didn’t have quite the air of a homecoming. Despite an inspired introduction in faux-Latin by club owner David Carr, the… Continue reading

Living Life to the Fullest
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By Sophia Castrillo
She is a performer, producer, public speaker, painter, and a children’s advocate. Sara Hickman has enjoyed playing music for nearly two decades. She also has spent most of her childhood experimenting on her… Continue reading

By Frank Goodman
Although we’ve never done this before, if you’d like to set the stage and the mood for enjoying this interview, I suggest you begin by listening to a Sara Hickman audio clip, of "A Song For You." [click here] I… Continue reading

Sara Hickman has amassed an impressive career up to this point, but with Motherlode, she can claim an album that ought to mark here as an artist for the ages. A two-CD set based loosely around the concept for femininity and all… Continue reading

To paraphrase a defunct automaker’s catch phrase, “This is not your toddler’s Sara Hickman!”
Hickman’s new double album, Motherlode, catches the prolific singer and writer of both adult and children’s songs in two distinctly grown-up moods: one quite desperate, the other more defiant.
Clearly,… Continue reading

Musically, thematically, even spiritually, this two-disc meditation on motherhood and the joys and frustrations of women is the most wildly ambitious release of the veteran Texan’s career. After channeling her talents into a series of children’s albums in recent years, Sara Hickman… Continue reading

Sara Hickman should have been listed among the front line of the women’s Folk movement in the late ’80s, but label treachery kept her from her rightful place. After extricating herself from industry clutches by raising $40,000 from her fans to buy… Continue reading