Rising from the snowdrifts and frozen lakes of St. Paul comes Molly Maher & her Disbelievers. Carving out a place for themselves with cinamatic visions of love lost and found, landscapes filled with REAL TIMELESS ROOTS music.
Using Molly's plaintiff vocals and HONEST writting, she makes the highway seem lonesome at first, but armed with lush guitar hooks and driving rhythms, she'll never let you lose your way.
Born with the affliction of being left handed she's adapted her playing style by flipping a right handed guitar upside down;ala Elizabeth Cotton.
Just looking at her gear gives a pretty good idea of her sound.
'38 Regal/Dobro resonator
'40 Gibson L-00
"32 Martin 0-17 ( one of the most recorded guitars used in Mpls. Sessions range from Soul Asylum to Jeff Tweedy with Golden Smog and Joanna James.
'62 Fender brownfaced Princeton
custom built Savage Mact 12 with twin 8 speakers ,and many Silvertones.
THE DISBELIEVERS
Maher's backing band is made up of a stellar crew of musicians. It's a sweet blend of folk, bluesy, elecric-organfied and county-fried rock. Disbelievers include but are not limited to: Erik Koskinen,Paul Bergen, Brad Mattson,Steve Murray, Lynda Crotty, Frankie Lee,Matt Novachis,Noah Levy,Mark O'Day,Nick Johnson,Paul MAnske,John Rodine,Jennifer MArkey,Zak Swanson, Javier Trejo, Peter Sands, Tony Johnson,Paul Odegaard, Brad Konkel, John Moline, Razz, Thomas Case,Kari Howe, Brett Brdas, and Billy Hawn.
PRESS:
Maher steps out from the pack of Americana/alt-country songwriters
"With this month's release of her second record, "Balms of Gilead," Maher steps out from the pack of Americana/alt-country songwriters in the Twin Cities. Never mind that she already stood out by being a woman with a previously all-male band in a mostly male-dominated genre.
As the album title suggests, "Balms" is awash in healing-powered songs and desert-y soundscapes. Lucinda Williams is the most obvious comparison it deserves, especially with wounded-poet songs such as "Let's Pretend We Never Have Met." But the disc's many different moods also show traces of Daniel Lanois-produced Bob Dylan and the Latin-ish acoustic work of Calexico and Los Lobos. Like Bonnie Raitt, Maher clearly can play guitar but seems more focused on being a singer/songwriter." Chris Riemenchneider - Star Tribune
Sets them apart from other artists.
"Molly Maher and her Disbelievers command the stage with their rootsy charm but it's their ability to perform haunting low-fi ballads and whip them into full blown rockin' epics that sets them apart from other artists." James "Taco" Martin - E Company
All hail the new honky-tonk heroine
"Maher's got a lived-in voice whose weariness is bouyed by a fierce underlying ambition and an obvious love of music and people." Jim Walsh - City Pages
Review of Balms of Gilead
As a songwriter, Maher brings a fine feeling of restlessness to tunes like "3200 Miles" and also wonderfully puts a personal stamp on Blind Willie J Johnson's "Soul of A Man," making wholly her own. The Onion