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Melissa McClelland

Melissa McClelland

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Some dream of marrying the girl next door. Others fantasize about one wild night with her in the back of daddys car. At first glance, Melissa is the perfect object of both desires: classically demure in a pink cashmere sweater, until a blood red bra strap suddenly leaps from her shoulder. Shes the type of girl to which youd entrust all of your worldly possessions, giving her the keys to your house, the keys to your car, only to discover later that she tore the roof off one and disappeared for days in the other. Fairy tales are made of girls like these; or in Melissas case, re-written by them.
Thumbalinas one night stand is the first of its kind. This album is a collection of dark fables for the soul, where love haunts solitude and fantasy trumps reality. By unflinchingly internalizing pop music sensibilities, Melissa carefully maps out the landscape within us. She explores the rules on the inside, for it is there where most rules are broken.
Never begrudging us our bearings or herself tradition, Melissas music and lyrics both sooth and comfort us. She has the utmost respect for the forms of expression she has chosen, and lovingly buckles us in for the ride. Nevertheless, we are mysteriously transported someplace entirely unexpected, yet always a sacred place we were somehow meant to go.
Thumbalina is not entirely Melissas tale. It belongs to all those who have flirted with would be disaster, taken a left turn instead of a right, inhaled so deeply that cracks become roads and slipping becomes strutting. It also belongs to the visionaries that came together to make it so: her right hand man, producer and guitar extraordinaire Luke Doucet; stellar players, Rick May and Paul Brennan; engineering by Andre Wahl; additional production by Jeff Trott & mixing by Greg Collins; and the icing on the cake, guest appearances by Greg Keelor (Blue Rodeo), Justin Rutledge, and Sarah McLachlan.
With this album Melissa McClelland has risen as the avant-garde mistress of inner pop noire. Sometimes purgatorial, other times ephemeral, she is both poet and pioneer. She never flinches at the ugly, never falters at the undone. Instead, she continually rises, one minute the vixen, the next apple pie.
A dark feline beauty in a spotless white summer dress in the deepest of southern romances on the coldest of winter nights, Melissa is a heroine you will not be able to get out of your mind.

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Member Since: 11/1/2005
Band Website: melissamcclelland.com
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Record Label: Orange Record Label
Type of Label: Indie

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Blue Rodeo

3 weeks into the tour,11 cities, 5 pedals, 4 dresses& one broken thumb. This month I am one member of Luke Doucet & the White Falcon. You know that sexy white guitar that plays the starring role in ...
Posted by Melissa McClelland on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:55:00 PST

Long May You Ride...

Where has the time gone? It's hanging out with my old bike in front ofthe Bloor. st cinema. The back tire flat, the front break busted & itsrusted, tired surface once gleaming with pride now only a ...
Posted by Melissa McClelland on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:34:00 PST

Listen to Melissa's CBC Interview!

From bad food to "Rock Proof" hotels, be sure to check out Melissa's interview on radio3.cbc.ca!...
Posted by Melissa McClelland on Wed, 09 May 2007 11:10:00 PST

Dire Straits & the Texas two step

I've been waiting at the crossroads making catcalls to the devil. I'm holding a perfectly untuned guitar, extra thick calluses on my fingertips. So, I'm not Robert Johnson yet, but I've spent the wi...
Posted by Melissa McClelland on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:27:00 PST

moonshine and nuptials

Where do I begin. Lets go backwards, just for fun. Here I am in myliving room, rice on the stove, big momma thornton wailing hound dog onthe stereo, michael our old italian neighbor working on his v...
Posted by Melissa McClelland on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:34:00 PST

high heels & home baked goods

I've been trying to compose the simplest of journal entries for weeks now. Not too difficult a task, but there are so many little busy bees buzzingaround inside my head these days that I can't make ou...
Posted by Melissa McClelland on Tue, 30 May 2006 02:31:00 PST

pretty sister, ugly sister

It was pouring rain in Nappa Valley yesterday. The sky had a sci fi yellowish tint to it. We laughed our heads off on the drive up, swooshed glasses and smirked our way through pretentious soundin...
Posted by Melissa McClelland on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:58:00 PST

Harper hangover

my record label pointed a magic wand in my face & said 'write a smash hit single!'. kind of kills the creative process, so i downed a bottle of wine last night in hopes of stirring up some kind of cr...
Posted by Melissa McClelland on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:19:00 PST

Tanning on Rooftops

It's a fine afternoon in downtown Toronto. The sun is shining & it's 8 degrees. God bless global warming. I'm counting down the days to a Maui trip with my Ladybirds. We've been playing our little...
Posted by Melissa McClelland on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:28:00 PST

Babbo Natali!

it's boxing day & the sweatpants have come out.  i've been fighting an illness for the last month & contstant traveling has made me a very whiny & cranky thing.  but, not to star...
Posted by Melissa McClelland on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 04:17:00 PST