Sierra Hull on Her Influences and Defining Her Style | Reverb Interview

Accomplished mandolin player and singer/songwriter Sierra Hull stopped by the Reverb office to discuss influences and the origins of her distinct style. From Allison Krauss to Ricky Scaggs, Sierra has pulled from many influences and from them was born a style all her own.
Read more about Sierra Hull at bit.ly/2nZoAEw.
New album "Weighted Mind" available on New Rounder.
www.sierrahull.com/

[@guitartec]

Soon, there will be some new amazing new mando player, and they will talk about their influences being Sierra Hull.

[@heweyinthewoods]

Sierra you are one of the most beautiful and talented women in the world today and a kind spirit. love you kiddo keep doing what you do. You are totally unique. I'm am old rock and role guy that has fallen in love with bluegrass music and I stumbled across you. You are the real deal!!

[@guyfaulkes3035]

Not just a student of Chris Thile, but also influenced by the musical approach of Béla Fleck - who produced her latest "solo" album. She's matured by leaps & bounds since her 2008 debut.

[@Chicken_Picker]

Almost a Hendrix-esque approach to the mandolin when shes discussing her playing on Weighted Mind. Very cool to see!

[@kingdomthings9887]

i hear a little bit of similarity of Alison, in you 🙂 . I saw her in a very intimate concert setting, at the Cavalier Hotel in Va. Beach, many years ago. I was in the front row, just 10 feet from the band, in a small room with fold up chairs. I was blessed to experience that, and will always remember it. Her banjo player was amazingly talented.

[@dalesmith9163]

I love the way that you improvise when you play. And you have a jazz & swing sound to your playing that I love.

[@kidgloves2]

Sierra is just as good as Chris Thile. If you don't know her and are looking for something new, get an album and see one of her live shows. Then convince a friend to do the same. These are the artists we should be supporting.

[@HomoChomsky]

The bits of music I heard in that video certainly convinced me to do so.

[@kidgloves2]

Awesome. Prepare to have your mind blown. Check out Chris Thile too. He's super human!

[@HomoChomsky]

I agree, I discovered him recently through his collaborative album with Brad Mehldau (also a superhuman in his own right)!

[@oisinotoole9073]

She's brilliant alright but nah come on Thiles played since five compare technique and musicality and all, she is great though no doubt at all

[@JustFiddler]

kidgloves2 i love you both. sierra....thile

[@WWS322]

I am a big fan of Sierra. I bought her CD weighted mind and it was unlike what I expected. It is a little dark and I expected something a little up tempo. But it definitely is quite an achievement, like nothing I've heard before!

[@Grant_Ferstat]

She's wonderful. Talent & all the work she's clearly put in.

[@terryremaly957]

Dang that was cool thanks. I've just pick up the metal in not too long ago couple months thank you for the ideas it was great. I love music so much

[@ebeep]

So awesome!

[@AlaniSugar]

ahhhh you're so amazing!!!! So talented, so beautiful, great musician, great singer, just so amazing!

[@truthray2885]

What a very smart and informative presentation, and what a charming, talented young woman.

[@mooflaghero1]

Amazing and inspirational

[@ThanhTran-jn7dd]

I love you, Sierra Hull!

[@patrickbeard3786]

I love her riff-style of playing.

[@0713mas]

She's fantastic! I have that same mandolin

[@drutgat2]

Many thanks for posting this. I know nothing about Sierra, and next to nothing about bluegrass (although I have always quite liked it), but the lines that she was playing at 3.24 sound quite unusual to me harmonically - almost hearkening to North Indian (Hindustani) Classical Music (which I do know about). This has piqued my curiosity, and I am going to listen to more of Sierra.

[@merlinzest]

Beautiful and an amazing player. Definitely makes me want to pickup the Mandolin.

[@Xeroux11]

Once someone’s so good, they don’t need affirmation from me. But IMO, she’s a crazy good mandolin player, innovative, and knows herself. The music world will have her influence for a long time. And she’s.pretty cute.

[@lisar3777]

Great musician!

[@rohw0016]

What a wonderful human

[@RadityoPramAdi]

just wow

[@IscOrion666]

I love youuuuuu!!!!!!

[@DrThrashmaster]

She plays mandolin like Mustaine plays guitar What she was playing when she was singing sounded like it could've been a megadeth riff... But it's a mandolin I'm so confused

[@WhiteNacho]

Damn she's good!

[@belovedtemitope83]

Y'all just had to put her face there and make me watch 😖😍😍😂😂

[@anuvette]

She got me into bluegrass music

[@fejneerg]

Pretty great.

[@offdutyjie]

She should do a small duet with Dan Auerbach!

[@ashrafimaduddin8162]

She looks like victoria from how i met your mother

[@SteffeLindmanMedia]

Damn she´s cute :-)

[@wxb200]

Yeah she is. Beautiful and Talented!

[@JimWalkerMusic]

The female Chet Atkins of Mandolin. The boom chuck is great, but Chet always kept the melody out front. Sierra may someday be seen as the greatest Mandolin player the world has ever known.

[@luxocamper1]

Little known fact: Sierra and I were going to get married, but she wouldn't return my phonecalls...

[@peanutbutter1998]

Such a freak lmao

[@callmedaz]

Who's the fella on the left there?

[@thinkpad20]

Just saw him for a second so it’s hard to say for sure, but it looks like Royal Masat, who plays with Billy Strings & others.

[@DanielJayHouk]

All these comments trying to claim her under the rock or metal genres. No lol she is bluegrass

[@telee19]

Reverb - I love you but you misspelled Alison Krauss!

[@guyfaulkes3035]

I see it misspelled as "Allison Krause" more often than correctly as Alison Krauss on the 'Net. A shame.

[@telee19]

It is. I mean, it is Alison Krauss! That is like misspelling Frank Sinatra's name, I mean it is that egregious! But Reverb.com I still love you.

[@epmerklith6575]

We cosmopolitans spell it "Alison Krauß".

[@mstupidbritishperson]

Misspelled Ricky Skaggs too!

[@patricklefebvreguitar5744]

my word......hi?

[@tcoudi]

she is cute and damn great player, but damn she short, its like agnus young level, the octave looks almost like a bass guitar on her.

[@pickin4you]

Awesome as always, but could not help but notice that blinding diamond on your ring finger.... hmmmm????

[@danielhanfakaga5016]

pickin4you I noticed it and then Read your comment

[@alan4sure]

Married to Justin Moses.

[@martinlynn3699]

@@alan4sure bummer.

[@patlatorres7000]

@@martinlynn3699 Not from his perspective! When you see them play together, it's easy to see that they're absolutely in sync!

[@bryinthe6197]

Either she's two feet tall or that's a jumbo mandolin.

[@powbobs]

She must be tiny. That little mandolin looks so big on her.

[@RobertSaxy]

Sierra is amazing we all know this but let’s give it up for that bass player at the end with the bow as well

[@delduked]

It's like your playing progressive mandolin blue grass. Almost like progressive rock with the that rhythm blended with those progession/riffs/licks. Periphery does that. But they are prog metal, not prog bluegrass

[@kowasumono]

She looks kind of under the weather in this video. Her nose is really red.

[@kowasumono]

Good video nevertheless. :p

[@tonyhemingway7980]

I think it's the video. I thought, at first, that her thumb was bleeding.

[@paulalancornelius8671]

You are a very attractive woman.😂