Liar

LIAR stepped on to the music scene in 1994 with its original members Eric McFadden, Paula O'Rourke, Paulo Baldi, and Marisa Martinez Mead. In 1997 Marisa left and was replaced with Sheila Schat on violin. The group disbanded in 2000, but did reunite later on for a couple of shows. In 2001 a benefit for friend Garrett Whatley and an impromptu performance in 2007. Both with original violinist, Marisa Martinez. Liar's debut release "Devil Dog Road" and follow up album "Gone Too Far" received much acclaim among both fans and critics. Originally from Albuquerque, Liar moved to San Francisco in '95. Liar serves up a smoking concoction of maniacal and beautiful sounds from Barcelona, Bombay, Austin and Tucumari. "If I were driving through the Great Salt Desert at 3:00am,this is the album I'd want on the car stereo-tasty noir rock layered with strains of blues, bluegrass, folk, and middle eastern flourishes." States Sam Hurwitt at the East Bay Express. Liar is desert rock at it's finest-beautiful, dangerous, and exhilarating. Liar won the SF Weekly's Wammies in 1997 and Bam Magazine's California Music Awards in 1998. * * Liar Demon clowns and mad Gypsies must glut the road between here and New Mexico -- and from the sounds of Devil Dog Road, Liar has shared wine with all of them. Led by guitar zealot Eric McFadden, Liar burst on the San Francisco scene a little over a year ago, and was immediately adopted by booker/producer Toni Isabella as the Paradise Lounge's favorite act. Live, Liar takes on the nuance of a sinister cabaret. McFadden, sporting his prerequisite top hat and tails, growls with a dusty cadence as his fingers dance across mandolin or guitar strings with an ease that betrays a pact with the devil. Only when violinist Marisa Mead takes her occasional turn at the mike is there a brief respite from the dizzying melange of Gypsy, klezmer, rock, bluegrass, country, and circus requiems that is McFadden's trademark. Mead plants her feet firmly in the more accessible world of rock 'n' roll, but it is still McFadden's obsessive sojourns that make your feet wiggle despite the prickling of flesh. The fact that Devil Dog Road manages to capture even a small fraction of the live Liar experience is further proof of preternatural support.-- Silke Tudor * * ...listening to this record is like watching a thunderstorm brew up over the Sangre de Cristo range and sweep down the valley of the Rio grande, beautiful, dangerous and endlessly entertaining. Henry C. Smith/Soundcheck Magazine* Liar, with its multilayered sound, has a killer recording that has both critics and bookers listening. Deft musicians from different walks of life, they hammer out a unique sound. Sam Hurwitt/East Bay ExpressLiar's Eric McFadden growls with a dusty cadence as his fingers dance across the guitar strings with an ease that betrays a pact with the devil. Silke Tudor/SF WeeklyLiar is the first shoo-in for success I've seen since some of the early four non-blonde gigs... Gary X Indiana, BAM Magazine