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Mel King

The truths I hid in layers

About Me

I was born and raised in Albany, New York, spent a year of my life in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn going to Brooklyn College, and am now comfortably nestled at NYU. I'm in Gallatin, trying to change the world one interdisciplinary seminar at a time. I am most comfortable with guitar, a pen, and paper at close reach and am always noodling around with something. I play out when it's possible, but mostly just rock out for my friends who happen to come by. I dream of starting a band with two guitars and a cello. Any takers?My guitars are a green Washburn D10 (Ophelia), a Takamine acoustic/electric EG230 (Antigone), and a Danville Dobro Resonator (Idgie Threadgoode). I pretty exclusively use Martin Phosphor Bronze Medium strings and Dunlop nylon .60 and .73 MM picks.

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Member Since: 1/22/2007
Band Website: freewebs.com/melking
Band Members: Mel King - vocals, guitar
Influences: Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, The Indigo Girls, Melissa Etheridge, Ani DiFranco, R.E.M., The Shins, The Smiths, Iron & Wine, Damien Rice, Counting Crows, Paddy Kilrain, Patty Griffin, José González, Julia Hall, Death Cab for Cutie Rilo Kiley, The Mountain Goats, Sufjan Stevens, Adrianne, Maroon 5, Pamela Means, The Postal Service, Bright Eyes, Shawn Colvin, Jack Johnson, The Magnetic Fields, The Weakerthans, Cat Stevens, The Moldy Peaches, The Decemberists, Of Montreal, Jason Mraz, Devendra Banhart, Vonda Shepard, Amadou & Mariam, Keane, The Juliana Theory, Jens Lekman, The Murmurs, Rusted Root, Cat Power, Eels, Elliott Smith, Coldplay, Regina Spektor, Belle & Sebastian, Ben Harper, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, Yusuf Islam
Sounds Like: a cover of Paddy Kilrain covering Amy Ray covering Bob Dylan.or a skinny kid with a guitar.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New songs? Pray tell! What is this!

Hey, gender-variant term of endearment!I'm working on recording some new songs and hopefully I'll have them up soon! So, keep checking back.Stay classy, interwebz....
Posted by Mel King on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:09:00 PST

New Stuff!

Hey friends and ladies and special dudes and babies!I just updated the music on here to stuff that I am currently working on. I'm in the process of recording a big album of everything thus far. If the...
Posted by Mel King on Tue, 22 May 2007 10:11:00 PST