Slaid Cleaves
The music of Austin-based singer/songwriter and guitarist Slaid Cleaves is rooted in country and traditional folk songs, but it is unusual enough to have held interest in a sea of singer/songwriters across the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. While he released a handful of recordings during the early '90s, he gained significant notice with No Angel Knows, which was released on Rounder's Philo subsidiary in 1997. Joined by former Lucinda Williams guitarist Gurf Morlix, Cleaves combined his passion for folk songs, blues, and traditional country music into an amalgamation of styles known as Americana. Not surprisingly, the album rode high into the charts at Americana-formatted radio stations around the U.S. and Canada in 1997. The release set the tone for the rest of his career.
Prior to entering the music industry, Cleaves majored in English and philosophy at Tufts University in his native New England, and began playing music in garage rock bands while still in high school. While in college, he learned guitar, and later spent a summer in Ireland. He began busking on the streets in Cork, and that was the turning point when he decided to become a folksinger. At Tufts, he developed his guitar skills and studied the music of Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springsteen. He recalled that he had listened to the music of Guthrie, Carl Perkins, and Hank Williams as a child, so he went back into his parents' attic to discover a treasure trove of albums.
After many years in Portland, Maine, he sought new mountains to climb, and found some of them after moving to Austin, Texas, in 1992. Despite the echelon of great singer/songwriters like Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Lucinda Williams, Robert Earl Keen, Guy Clark, and Joe Ely all centered around the Austin scene, Cleaves was able to make a name for himself there. In 1995, he recorded an independent album for Rock Bottom Records entitled Life's Other Side. In 1996, he began his collaboration with Morlix, who liked Cleaves' demo tape and ended up serving as producer for 1997's No Angel Knows.
During the following decade, Cleaves released Broke Down (2000) and Wishbones (2004) prior to switching to Rounder proper for Unsung (2006). After signing with Jimmy LaFave and Kelcy Warren's Music Road label, he issued Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away (2009, featuring liner notes from fan Stephen King), the two-disc Sorrow & Smoke: Live at the Horseshoe Lounge (2011), and Still Fighting the War (2013). The title song of the latter album was inspired by Craig F. Walker's Pulitzer-winning photo essay regarding a soldier's postwar civilian life. 2017's Ghost on the Car Radio found Cleaves exploring the traditions of American small town life.
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Discografia
19 álbum(ns) • Ordenado por Mais vendidos
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Together Through the Dark
Country - Lançado por Candy House Media em 03/03/2023
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Ghost on the Car Radio
Country - Lançado por Candy House Media em 23/06/2017
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Still Fighting the War
Country - Lançado por Music Road Records em 18/06/2013
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Wishbones
Folk - Lançado por Rounder Records em 01/01/2004
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No Angel Knows
Folk - Lançado por Rounder Records em 01/01/1997
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Live At Blue Highways
Country - Lançado por Continental Record Services em 23/01/2009
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Bonus Tracks Vol. 1
Country - Lançado por Candy House Media em 03/06/2016
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No Angel Knows
Country - Lançado por Universal Music Group International em 01/01/1997
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Blanco River Meditation #2
Pop - Lançado por Eight 30 Records em 29/10/2021
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Holiday Sampler
Folk - Lançado por Rounder Records em 01/01/2001
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Bring It On (Live at Texas Music Café)
Country - Lançado por Texas Music Café em 02/07/2021
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Drunken Barber's Hand
Country - Lançado por Candy House Media em 01/06/2017
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Second Hand
Country - Lançado por Candy House Media em 10/02/2023
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Through the Dark
Country - Lançado por Candy House Media em 04/11/2022
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