The Secret Sisters: '50s-inspired "Tennessee Me"

The Secret Sisters are a new-age traditional Country music duo, consisting of vocalists Laura and Lydia Rogers. Their 1950's-inspired musical style has been described as "a guileless, rapturous mixture of rootsified pop." The siblings may hailing direct from the fertile musical territory of Mussel Shoals, Alabama, but the sibling pair pay respect to the home state of country music in their newly debut video for self-penned easygoing anthem "Tennessee Me," a piano-driven song begging for a slow dance on a summer night, is the first notes of the lovely opener off sisters' self titled debut.
They say everything in life is cyclical, and the sibling duo take us back to an age of folk and country music that is refreshing. You could easily picture the duo sitting at the back of a small bar strumming a guitar and holding the audience captive with their voices. The Secret Sisters' incredible story is as simple and true as the effortless harmonies that got them here. "We can't wait for everyone to see our new video, not only because it's our first official music video, but also because it's for a song we wrote early in our careers in tribute to the wonderful state of Tennessee," Laura says. "The fans have expressed a real love for the song so far, so we're happy to be able to share it with them through cinematography that was filmed in Nashville."
"Tennessee Me" offers a vintage approach to videography, which compliments the duo's 1940s and '50s-inspired sound. Similarly, their critically acclaimed debut album was recorded on analog, using just one microphone between the two. The Secret Sisters' sound captured on their debut has been described by Grammy winning producer T Bone Burnett as "as close to 'pure' as it gets, and I've been doing this for forty years." Determined to properly capture The Secret Sisters' magical harmonizing and stunning vocal power. The duo's signature sound is evident on songs such as the lilting anthem "Tennessee Me," among others. The bond between Laura and Lydia is as deep as "the Tennessee river in springtime" – one of their other favorite colloquialisms.
Neo-traditional is quite the buzz word these days in country music, an easy word to use to define the increasing number of bands that veer more towards country than towards pop. However, traditional is a tricky word, cover ever era from the twenties to the nineties with equal weight. It does not take into account a deliberate, willful desire to sound like specific artists in specific eras. For those artists we are left with the term Retro. For female artists, in country music, retro usually defines a tendency to emulate Patsy Cline in the fifties. The Secret Sisters are far from the first artists to fall into this category, following such footsteps as The Corn Sisters and Mandy Barnett. The Secret Sisters is filled with some Southern home-cooking that even the most jaded Yankee can appreciate, and their best days are in front of them.