Raiatea Helm is right up there with my best and favorite female vocalists....like Nora Jones, Diana Krall, Anita Baker, Joss Stone, Sade, Alicia Keyes, Rickie Lee Jones, etc.I like ALL the songs on this album. This doesn't always happen. As mentioned by Alexandra below Raiatea's first album 'Far Away Heaven' is a very good first effort but this, her second album, is much better. But, I'm saying this for a different reason than Alexandra.Raiatea's voice and singing on her first album is every bit as good as on her second album...but, it's the producing, arrangements, and engineering that aren't as good. Her first and second albums are produced, arranged and engineered by different people.The first album's mixed with too much electric bass. It's way too bass heavy. Also, and more importantly, Raiatea's voice on the first album isn't as forward as on her second album. 'On Far Away Heaven' it sounds like she's singing *behind* the band. Also, there's too much reverb on her voice. It sounds like she's singing in a cave. Still, her first album is worth getting. My favorite song on 'Far Away Heaven' is track #5 "Kauoha Mai".On 'Sweet and Lovely' Raiatea not only sings but plays the ukulele too! Something she didn't do on her first album. In fact, as I understand it she took up the ukulele before she took up singing. On the upbeat "Ālika" and the lilting "Kalama'ula" she holds notes longer than I can hold my breath! And her singing on 'Ku'u Home Aloha'...all I can say is WOW! Her duet with Aunty Genoa Keawe (Keh-Ah-veh) on "Hu'i Ē" is simply classic...a passing of the Hawaiian music torch from the older generation to the younger...