In The Music Room Studio Concert MJ Bishop 10-8-2011 opening set for Paula Held
Chasing Twisters Again Trying To Find The Happy He Took Her Hand Keep On Walking This Way And That
My New Town Getting To You Roll Over And Kiss Me She Leaves Arkansas She's Gone The River Up North
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"A modern-day Patsy Cline whose voice has been seasoned to
Americana perfection.
Folk Americana with attitude; lyric-driven melancholy
that’s gutsy, introspective, organic, emotive, acoustic, and laced with twang. "
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SHOW RECORDINGS
"In The Music Room"
Up North Hobo Dreams Chasing The Twisters No Stars Tonight
The
Forgiveness Song
My Mom Went This Way And My Dad Went That
Pull of the
Moon is chosen as one of the Notable
Northwest Recordings of 2008 by
KBCS.fm (Christine Linde,
Americana Music Director)
"Bishop is blessed with a hell of a voice and has her own type of pure
Americana..."
Ctrl.Alt.Country (Belgium)
"A bluegrass influence is woven in and out of a number of tracks on this
release..."
Victory Music Magazine (Tacoma, WA)
"What Bishop is doing with her songs crawl under your skin..."
Moors Magazine (The Netherlands)
"Superb poetically written lyrics..."
Rootsville (Belgium)
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Honorable Mention - Nashville Demo Studio: Annual Songwriters Competition,
August 2008 (This Way & That,
Pull Of The Moon).
Honorable Mention - American Songwriter Magazine Lyric Contest, May/June 2008
(Hobo Dreams,
Pull Of The Moon).
Artist
Information
Biography
MJ Bishop is an
acoustic solo artist out of Seattle. Her music is described as folk Americana
with attitude; lyric-driven melancholy that’s gutsy, introspective, organic,
emotive, acoustic, and laced with twang. A modern-day Patsy Cline whose voice
has been seasoned to Americana perfection. She has been compared to k.d. lang,
Emmylou Harris, Natalie Merchant, Kim Richey, Dar Williams, Rory Block, Indigo
Girls, Cowboy Junkies. Her influences include Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, k.d.
lang, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams.
Pull of the Moon, MJ's long-awaited third album (2008), sees her rolling up her
sleeves and plunging into the grittiness that is Americana, through the sweet,
familiar melodies of folk. The added trim around the edges reveals her deep
roots in country, jazz, rock and pop.
On these 12 tracks, MJ’s unwavering smoky vocals start from the dirt in the
crawl space, climb the stairs to the kitchen, the bedrooms, the attic, and
finally blast through the roof. She takes you on a journey starting with the
evocative opener “Up North” (about her small home town in Michigan’s Upper
Peninsula), weaving a story around the life of a guitar, life’s pushes and
pulls, love, loss, heartache, freedom from the nine-to-five job, and the appeal
of the open road. You will be conflicted by the lyrics as they first lure you
with the promise of good times before abruptly dropping you into a chasm of
loneliness and heartache.
Producing a pretty big sound armed with only a single guitar and her vocal
chords, MJ’s songs leave you humming well after the last note is sung.
Personally connecting with the audience is important to MJ, and her charm,
musicianship and professionalism shine during her performances. Entertaining
runs in the family and she claims to be addicted to the stage.
MJ has performed steadily since 1998 in and around Seattle, and has also taken
her music to Oregon, California, Idaho, Utah, Montana, Texas, Colorado, Arizona,
Tennessee, Indiana, Michigan and Florida. She has shared the stage with many
Northwest musicians, including The Starlings, Christy McWilson, The Paperboys
(Canada), ThorNton Creek, Moe Provencher, Nancy K. Dillon, Eva Tree, Matt Price,
and Brandi Carlile.
Combining deep roots in acoustic music with a maturing country sensibility, MJ
creates a genre that is, in many ways, her own.
Instrumentation
MJ Bishop - voice,
acoustic guitar, accordion
Discography
Pull of the Moon
(2008); Feel Good (2003); Hometown Address (2001)
CONTACT INFO:
HOMETOWN: NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, USA
WEBSITES: www.mjbishopband.com/ www.myspace.com/mjbishopband
EMAIL: mjbishop@earthlink.net
PHONE: 206-390-1145
BOOKING: mjbishop@earthlink.net 206-390-1145
CD and/or DVD Availability: CD Yes DVD ? Yes mjbishop@earthlink.net 206-390-1145
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