Michigan-born & Brooklyn-based folk artist Melaena Cadiz released her debut album in 2010 & has been gathering momentum ever since. The Portland Phoenix called Rattle the Windows “A frolicking batch of lightly mournful Americana songs.” Slowcoustic dubbed her work a "slam dunk for fans of Marissa Nadler, Alela Diane, Mariee Sioux and women who not only have great voices, enchanting music, but just have an aura about them." The record topped the Earshot Charts (Canadian CMJ charts) the summer it was released.
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Born and raised in central New York, in a house at the end of a long dirt road, J.R. started dabbling in music when he was six and his mother mandated – as she did with his older and younger brothers – that he take piano lessons. A self-taught guitar and banjo player, J.R.’s fondness for old gospel hymns, bluesmen like Son House and R.L. Burnside, and artists like The Carter Family and Tom Waits, helped shape his sound, which has been described as “haunting stomp blues tempered with a touch of honey.”
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