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REVIEWS:
Sugarfoot Review by Joy Johnston
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Visit Still Running: An unauthorized Biography of Performing Songwriter Michelle Malone (By: Maureen Palli).
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Sugarfoot Reviews:
"Sugarfoot is blues-based rock and roll, raw and rough-honed, a modern-day Exile On Main Street - except that it has exceptional songs." - Creative Loafing
"With its stuttering backbeats, elegant slide guitar and stop-time boogie, Malone’s new Sugarfoot gives the blues aesthetic a shot in the arm. Malone closes the Bonnie Raitt gap." - The Nashville Scene
"Contemporary Southern rock doesn't get any smarter or dirtier than this. Poetic lyric command, relentless energy, and nasty slide guitar make Sugarfoot riveting from the get-go." - Amazon.com
"The singer has rarely sounded better or more passionate. She's confident without an ounce of pretension and seems as relaxed and self-assured. If this raw, lean and mean CD brings Malone much deserved recognition, she's earned every ounce of it the hard way" - All Music Guide
Malone's gritty, emotive vocals and sinewy arrangements that most emphatically define her. She wails like the devil's on her tail, but she isn't waiting for Satan to catch up before she catches fire" - Amplifier Magazine
"Malone's rich vocals blew me away. Bonnie Raitt you better start sweating now. Great range, too. She's bursting with attitude and stomping like a prettier Janis Joplin (sorry Janis)... straight up slide guitar rock that'll "drop you to your knees" It's pure ear candy with a shot of Bourbon." - Bluescritic.com
1-21-07 Show ReviewSouthern Duel (reprinted from www.knoxville520.com)Sometimes, you just feel like somebody's watchin' out for ya. In the middle of doing Saturday morning errands, I got a call that Michelle Malone and Garrison Starr would be playing that night at the Corner Lounge. That is like telling someone who likes classic rock that the Eagles would be playing at the Tennessee Theatre, and that the cover charge was $10. Apparently others' guardian angels weren't lookin' after them as closely as mine were, as there were probably only thirty people there. These are musicians that have a strong undercurrent of followers and pack venues like the Grey Eagle in Asheville, and Eddie's Attic in Atlanta. Lucky for us, we live in Knoxville, and we sometimes get front row because everyone else is hunkered down with their gallon of milk and their loaf of bread--just hoping, waiting, and wishing for that storm to hit.Sometimes, here in Knoxville, we get a little complacent. We get comfortable with our music scene, our football, our market square, and we forget--we forget that a woman, and a guitar, and a cause--or a good story, is missing from our lives. And we got two of them last night. I'd heard of Garrisonn Starr, but I'd never heard her. She (and a drummer named Jesus) filled that room with sound and story-tellin' that just needed to happen. She has a new album, Garrison Starr's Fans' Greatest Hits, Volume 1--selections that her fans chose. And because just picking ten songs was rather impossible, there will be a Volume 2 at some point, so don't you worry. I just kept wondering if that was her real name, and if so, I'd like to meet her parents--even if they apparently give her a hard time about not enough church-going, the red Vans and her jeans that drop just a little too low. Regardless, she's got to be thanking them for the voice she's got and the guitar that she can play.Michelle Malone. This was the third time I'd seen her. The first was rockin' the you-know-what out of a private party in downtown Knoxville, the second time she was getting some coffee at my favorite grocery store in Atlanta, the third was playing at the Corner Lounge last night. I think she's been out West for a while--the real out West--not West Town Mall. See, if you thought I meant West Town Mall, it's time to get out of Knoxville for a bit.This woman is both nonchalant and fierce. Michelle Malone probably tops the scales out at about 105. But one look, and though she's beautiful--her eyes tell you that she has chosen her battles. You decide early that you want her on your team--and you want her playin' her guitar. There were a few guys in the back who looked like they just dropped in for a beer after riding their motorcycles across the country collecting tattoos. A few songs in, a few riffs from her collection of electric beauties...and they dropped their jaws in surprise and then joined in the fray of those that appreciated a woman who could sing and play. With influences like the Rolling Stones, Bonnie Rait, Muddy Waters, and Billie Holiday...you want to be at the front table. Fortunately for Knoxville, you could have been--and fortunately for the world, she can also write a song or two, and she has a new album out, "Sugarfoot."If you're ever feeling sick and tired of being part of the American Idol society--in her observation, that we're become something more of the American Idle society. If you know deep down that families could do better if minimum wage wasn't so minimum, if you're lonely and you think that everybody (but you) has found their someone, if you appreciate a good southern river and a good southern whiskey--then you would be in good company with Michelle Malone. And although the Corner Lounge doesn't serve liquor, they can certainly bring in women and guitars that can hold their own.
Stompin Ground Reviews:
"...2003's hands-down best Americana release from a female singer-songwriter." - HARP Magazine
"If the strong songs, crisp guitar work and soulful vocals of Stompin' Ground are any indication, we should start referring to Bonnie Raitt as the poor person's Michelle Malone. -highbias.com
"...raucous and jubilant...somewhere between Lucinda Williams and Shelby Lynne comes Michelle Malone alternating between soulful ballads and rowdy, riffy blasters." - Rolling Stone.com
4 out of 5 Bunnies "... on this loose and blues-stoked new album, the rough-and-tumble Malone embraces her inner Keith Richards while churning up those Southern roots with the vigor of Lucinda Williams." Playboy Magazine
"Malone has plugged in this time around and ripped the roof of the Snack N Shack. She's the real deal. If STOMPIN' GROUND got any hotter, you'd have to slap a warning label on the thing and call it a hazard. " Plan 9 Mag
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Entry 1 10/24/06
Visit Still Running: An unauthorized Biography of Performing Songwriter Michelle Malone (By: Maureen Palli).
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Entry 2 10/25/06
Sugarfoot Review by Joy Johnston
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Entry 3 10/31/06
Folk-rocker Michelle Malone was born and raised in Atlanta, spending her summers on tour with her mother, a pop singer turned gospel vocalist. While attending Agnes Scott College, Malone befriended the Indigo Girls' Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, who in turn encouraged her to pursue a career in music; she soon quit school and honed her skills in local clubs, issuing her debut album New Experience in 1988. Forming the band Drag the River, she returned two years later with Relentless, followed in 1992 by the solo For You Not Them. After completing 1993's seasonal jazz-inspired effort A Swingin' Christmas in the Attic, Malone formed another group, Band de Soleil, to record 1994's Redemption Dream; she then again went solo, resurfacing three years later with Beneath the Devil Moon. Homegrown followed in 1999, and in mid-2000 Malone issued Lucky to Be Live. Strange Bird, Vol. 3 and Hello Out There followed in early 2001. Malone and The Low-Down Georgia Revue signed on with Amy Ray's Daemon to promote Stompin' Ground, which was slated for a fall 2003 release. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
REVIEWS:
Sugarfoot Reviews:
"Sugarfoot is blues-based rock and roll, raw and rough-honed, a modern-day Exile On Main Street - except that it has exceptional songs." - Creative Loafing
"With its stuttering backbeats, elegant slide guitar and stop-time boogie, Malone’s new Sugarfoot gives the blues aesthetic a shot in the arm. Malone closes the Bonnie Raitt gap." - The Nashville Scene
"Contemporary Southern rock doesn't get any smarter or dirtier than this. Poetic lyric command, relentless energy, and nasty slide guitar make Sugarfoot riveting from the get-go." - Amazon.com
"The singer has rarely sounded better or more passionate. She's confident without an ounce of pretension and seems as relaxed and self-assured. If this raw, lean and mean CD brings Malone much deserved recognition, she's earned every ounce of it the hard way" - All Music Guide
Malone's gritty, emotive vocals and sinewy arrangements that most emphatically define her. She wails like the devil's on her tail, but she isn't waiting for Satan to catch up before she catches fire" - Amplifier Magazine
"Malone's rich vocals blew me away. Bonnie Raitt you better start sweating now. Great range, too. She's bursting with attitude and stomping like a prettier Janis Joplin (sorry Janis)... straight up slide guitar rock that'll "drop you to your knees" It's pure ear candy with a shot of Bourbon." - Bluescritic.com
Stompin Ground Reviews:
"...2003's hands-down best Americana release from a female singer-songwriter." - HARP Magazine
"If the strong songs, crisp guitar work and soulful vocals of Stompin' Ground are any indication, we should start referring to Bonnie Raitt as the poor person's Michelle Malone. -highbias.com
"...raucous and jubilant...somewhere between Lucinda Williams and Shelby Lynne comes Michelle Malone alternating between soulful ballads and rowdy, riffy blasters." - Rolling Stone.com
4 out of 5 Bunnies "... on this loose and blues-stoked new album, the rough-and-tumble Malone embraces her inner Keith Richards while churning up those Southern roots with the vigor of Lucinda Williams." Playboy Magazine
"Malone has plugged in this time around and ripped the roof of the Snack N Shack. She's the real deal. If STOMPIN' GROUND got any hotter, you'd have to slap a warning label on the thing and call it a hazard. " Plan 9 Mag
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