Does it take a lot of guts to get on stage and present a set of material so new that some of the songs have no name? Or does it merely take confidence in one’s ability and trust in one’s […]
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Reprinted from Modern Acoustic magazine (www.modernacoustic.com). To download the full issue pdf, click HERE. FAVORITE ALBUMS “Numbered Doors,” by Lori McKenna and “Milltowns,” by Mark Erelli These two locally produced albums are as authentic and moving as any released nationally. After […]
A recording session is stopped abruptly, and a new-to-town songwriter is introduced, brought in to “fix” the projected hit song for Miss Rayna James, Nashville’s Queen of Country Music. The stranger doesn’t fit the mold of the shiny country music […]
Sunday night at the Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary had a moment that was as much fun listening to music as can be imagined. It proved to be one of many moments from a weekend of moments: After a full set of “modern […]
When a song is recorded, its performance is frozen at a point in time that instantly begins to age. But when a song is passed along, it is reborn every time it is performed anew. The same can be said […]
The Kennedys Dance a Little Closer: The Kennedys Sing the Songs of Nanci Griffith (independent release) As sincere a tribute as one might ever imagine, Dance a Little Closer: The Kennedys Sing the Songs of Nanci Griffith finds Pete and Maura […]
Signature Sounds’ unofficial mantra is “Music Abounds.” It says so on the right edge of 20th Anniversary insignia, printed on a 5-foot-by-5-foot circular sign that sits high above the center of the Academy of Music stage. The set design is minimalist, […]
The Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Celebration starts with a conversation between friends: Jim Olsen, the label’s founder, and Chris Smither, the label’s most storied act. The two are sitting on the slightly raised stage of the Parlor Room, a two-year-old, 50-seat […]
After the political and emotional catharsis of 2006’s Hope And Other Casualties, Mark Erelli deserves the respite of this (mostly) covers collection. Performed primarily solo (with occasional help from Jeffrey Foucault), the material reveals Erelli as a fan of both […]
Mark Erelli’s fourth effort is the rare treatise that works both as an artistic and political statement, an attentive examination of current times interwoven with matters of the heart. Erelli carried these songs around for several years, with thoughts of […]
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