{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox album | name = Equal Scary People | type = Album | artist = Sara Hickman | cover = Sara_Hickman_-_Equal_Scary_People.jpg | alt = | released = 1988 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Folk/pop | length = 38:42 | label = Four Dots<br>Elektra<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sara-hickman-mn0000246600/biography|title=Sara Hickman Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref><br>Discoveries<ref name=CL/> | producer = Sara Hickman,<br />Carl Finch | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Shortstop | next_year = 1990 }} '''''Equal Scary People''''' is the first album by the American singer-songwriter Sara Hickman, released in 1988 on Four Dots.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RC4EAAAAMBAJ&q=Equal+Scary+People+sara+hickman+1989&pg=PA73|title=The Edie Effect|magazine=Texas Monthly|date=July 16, 1989|publisher=Emmis Communications}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.houstonpress.com/music/shes-the-boss-6570965|title=She's the Boss|first=Hobart|last=Rowland|date=May 1, 1997|newspaper=Houston Press}}</ref> It was rereleased in 1989 on Elektra Records.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1989/10/29/sampling-contemporary-folk/eda1d364-ac6f-495c-b8b3-00130f4e928e/|title=Sampling Contemporary Folk|first=Mike|last=Joyce|date=October 29, 1989|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>
==Production== The album was co-produced by Carl Finch.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V7K4FL6XgGYC&q=Equal+Scary+People+sara+hickman+1989&pg=PA66|title=Hot Air|magazine=New York|date=January 8, 1990|publisher=New York Media, LLC}}</ref>
==Critical reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/equal-scary-people-mw0000205403|title=Equal Scary People Sara Hickman|website=AllMusic}}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=4 |page=275}}</ref> |rev3 = ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' |rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=319}}</ref> }} ''Trouser Press'' wrote that "with winning songs that are emotionally resonant and a little loopy, ''Equal Scary People'' ... is an album that easily stands out in a soundalike crowd."<ref name="TP">{{cite web |title=Sara Hickman |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/sara-hickman/ |website=Trouser Press |accessdate=16 October 2020}}</ref> The ''Los Angeles Times'' wrote that Hickman "offers a hip but down-home, honest but irony-laden mix that fans of Michelle Shocked and k.d. lang should relate to just fine."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-01-28-ca-1170-story.html|title=Sara Hickman's Down-Home Irony|date=January 28, 1990|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
== Track listing == #"Simply" (Hickman) – 3:03 #"Last Night Was a Big Rain" (Hickman) – 3:19 #"500x (The Train Song)" (Hickman) – 5:17 #"Song for My Father" (Hickman) – 4:13 #"Equal Scary People" (Hickman) – 4:38 #"This Is a Man's World" (Brown) – 4:40 #"Meant to Be" (Hickman) – 2:48 #"Why Don't You" (Hickman) – 4:01 #"I Wish I Were a Princess" (Creatore, Peretti, Weiss) – 3:07 #"Under the Sycamore Tree" (Hickman) – 3:56
== Personnel == *Sara Hickman – bass guitar, guitar, sound effects, chorus, harmony vocals, drum samples *Sandy Abernethy – chorus, harmony vocals *Josh Alan – acoustic guitar *Maurice Anderson – pedal steel *Dougie Bryan – guitar, chorus, harmony vocals *Carl Finch – organ, bass guitar, guitar, percussion, drums, vocals, harmony vocals, bass samples, hi hat *Bubba Hernandez – bass guitar *Mitch Marine – drums *Brad McLemore – classical guitar *Darryl Melugin – bass guitar *Scott Murphy *Reggie Rueffer – violin *Terry Slemmons – electric guitar, harmony vocals *Kenny Smith – drums, tambourine, chorus
'''Production''' *Producer: Sara Hickman, Carl Finch *Executive producer: Sara Hickman *Engineer: Terry Slemmons *Art direction: Sara Hickman *Cover art concept: Sara Hickman
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