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Mike Ethan Messick turned a childhood fascination with classic country music into a hobby and, with time, a career during his years in College Station, TX. An aspiring songwriter for as long as he can remember, Messick started playing his music in public at open mikes and talent shows during his college years at Texas A&M, picking up influences and constantly writing as he went. One of his works, "The Everclear Song", became a signature song for Roger Creager (a fellow Aggie) and gave Messick a level of notoriety that helped him book gigs all over the state, playing memorable acoustic and high-energy full band shows at Texas landmarks like The Firehouse Saloon, Hurricane Harry's, McGonigel's Mucky Duck, and Adair's well before the late 2006 release of his debut CD Bootlegger's Turn. Emerging from a scene that has produced talents like his friends The Gougers, Gabe Wootton, Chad Boyd, Larry Hooper, and many others, Messick is set to take his blend of Americana, folk, roots rock, and classic country back on the road.UPDATE: Starting with Summer of 2007, MEM has relocated to Austin, TX. Still writing, still playing, and hoping to step up his schedule in the near future. Other recent developments include a new Gibson Les Paul (definitely time to put a band together again), songs covered on new projects by Big John Mills and Josh Langston, and Roger Creager occasionally throwing Messick's "Kings Of Juarez" into his live shows. The CD is also available now at Waterloo Records in Austin and Evolution Records in Baytown, TX.--------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Catch (or better yet request) MEM's music on the following radio stations: LoneStarFM 107.3/92.5 (Brazos Valley), KORA 98.3 (Bryan/College Station), Aggie 96 (College Station), RadioFreeTexas.org, KEOS 89.1 (Bryan), and hopefully more to come. The CD is available at LoneStarMusic.com and at Hasting's in Bryan, College Station, and San Marcos.
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Member Since: 10/25/2005
Band Website: You're lookin' at it.
Influences: Steve Earle, John Prine, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Billy Joe Shaver, Fred Eaglesmith, Gary Stewart, The Band, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Dwight Yoakum, John Hiatt, The Bottle Rockets, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Mark Jungers
Sounds Like: The truth. Embellished a bit.
Record Label: Mucho Bucho Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Talk about Depression ... I hate this

QUOTE: SEATTLE, WA - No Depression, the bimonthly magazine covering a broad range of American roots music since 1995, will bring to an end its print publication with its 75th issue in May-June 2008.&...
Posted by Mike Ethan Messick on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:13:00 PST

The club

I was doing a little rearranging on my page, trying to shuffle some folks that I've played with lately into the "Top Friends" spots so they could get a little free publicity. It's only fair, a l...
Posted by Mike Ethan Messick on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:40:00 PST

Zen and the art of mp3 player maintenance

Well it's midnight down the drain/and it's whiskey down the hatch Feels like waiting for a train/that we're never gonna catch And all the walls are made of smoke/and all the floors are made of ash And...
Posted by Mike Ethan Messick on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:22:00 PST

OurTracks now has MyTracks ...

Heads up for any interested parties ... the website OurTracks.com, which has been selling music online for years now (even before that's where everybody got it), has just added my album "Bootlegger's ...
Posted by Mike Ethan Messick on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:05:00 PST

Thank you Dr.

If it sounds like a cliche, then it's just because it's been worth repeating for years: Martin Luther King Jr. changed the world, and I'm glad we've got this day to honor his memory. Very few in histo...
Posted by Mike Ethan Messick on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:16:00 PST

More florid imagery than anyone needs on a Sunday

Before I fell in love with her, before her beauty set me free I'd see things for what they were, and not for what they'd come to be Before she took me by the hand, and led me closer to the light I use...
Posted by Mike Ethan Messick on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:26:00 PST

My favorite music in 2007

2007 was a big year for me. My own CD rolled off the press in late 2006, so I spent a big chunk of '07 trying to convince various folks that my CD was something worth having and listening to.&nb...
Posted by Mike Ethan Messick on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:43:00 PST

ACL Fest 2 - Electric Boogaloo

DAY THREE - Tangled Up In Bahb Ambitious singer songwriters who are about to get to see Bob Dylan for the first time have been known to experience such a dramatic upswing in vital signs that they appe...
Posted by Mike Ethan Messick on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:21:00 PST

Austin City Limits Festival & what I got out of it

Last weekend me and about 500,000 (pending final ticket count) other Austinites, temporary or otherwise, descended upon the arid expanse of Zilker Park to wander around and squint at bands of various ...
Posted by Mike Ethan Messick on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:30:00 PST

Austin powers

Just wanted to let my friends know I'm alive & well & my new hometown is treating me good. Yeah, the traffic kind of sucks and I'm still trying to find my way around (my legendary sense ...
Posted by Mike Ethan Messick on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:41:00 PST