About Me
Six years ago, Michael Turvin set aside his pursuit of becoming a professional actor, picked up a guitar and stepped into the life of a songwriter. Performing in clubs in and around the East Village, his love for the stage adapted into an endeavor with a more personal compulsion. “With roots in country and a bent for the blues,†Michael’s music bares a likeness to his most pared-down predecessors. The straightforward guitar rhythms and ease at which his melodies unfold, allow his lyrics, serious and simplified, to shift into the foreground, delivered by a voice both husky and soft around the edges.
Driven by a longing neither vague nor evident, his songs are rich and bare, trembling, earnest and full of consequence. They are, at times, hopeful, at times, hopeless and in the most rousing moments, they are both. It is not only the images within the lyrics that propel the songs forward, but more significantly, the sensations behind them. Suddenly, the train approach is a little more deafening, the heart-pace slightly quicker and the wind’s cackle lengthened, deepened.
Even the spaces, the quiet lapses of sound and syntax, become magnified, allowing time for the song to catch its breath before losing it again. Everyone has become a stranger by this point, even the songwriter himself, and it is within these spaces that he is able to bring you full-circle, back to a place you know you have been before, a place so strangely familiar.
