Mark Erelli’s newest release, Blindsided, says just as much about who he is as it does about where he’s been. The secrets are embedded in the restraint of the 11-song set, a collection efficient yet varied, emotional yet exact. It’s […]
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I saw and listened to a lot of music in 2018 – a lot. I have a demanding full time job as head of In the Public Interest (check out the link and feel free to sign up.) But music […]
Recently I opened a couple of shows for my friend Mark Erelli, a great singer, guitarist, and songwriter who’s also based in Boston. During his shows, he began the musician’s traditional “I have CDs for sale” spiel, but his was […]
Are you planning on a trek? Or to an adventure journey the next vacation? Then you must start packing things from now on. The most important thing to pack while you are planning on a trek or a night journey […]
Mark Erelli certainly had no reason to feel obligated to record an album of other people’s songs. Consequently, it’s easy to surmise that he was either taking time to catch his breath or, more likely, so smitten with the material […]
Let’s be honest. There’s plenty of music in the world about youthful energy and passionate lust. But what about the hard stuff that comes after that clears away? It used to be that country music was made for the hard […]
It’s been six years since Mark Erelli released a new set of original material. In that time he’s played with Lori McKenna, Josh Ritter and Paula Cole (the latter of whom appears on two tracks here), recorded two albums with […]
This won’t be the first time singer-songwriter Mark Erelli has been compared to Paul Simon, and it won’t be the last. On his new record For a Song, Erelli applies Simon’s same brand of soft texture to his own sound, […]
What a great concept: get 15 songwriters together, subsidized by an Iguana Music Fund grant, and send them to a camp on Lake Winnipesaukee to write songs for a week. They call themselves the Sub Rosa Collective, and they are […]
Several friends mentioned that the Under the Covers show at Club Passim (its 12th annual such performance) is their favorite show of every year and, without knowing anything about the show other than the musicians playing, I decided to go. I am […]
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