NASHVILLE |DATE: MAY 13, 2010
FROM: MARCEE RONDAN
MALEA McGUINNESS:
SINGER, SONGWRITER, MUSICIAN
SET TO OPEN FOR CRASH TEST DUMMIES IN LOS ANGELES
AND COUNTING CROWS AT MILWAUKEE’S SUMMERFEST
IN SUPPORT OF HER
‘CLOSE AS AIR’ ALBUM
Singer/songwriter/musician MALEA McGUINNESS–who recently wrapped a two-month residency at Santa Monica’s Dakota Music Lounge–is readying her band for shows in Los Angeles and Milwaukee in support of the release of her new CLOSE AS AIR album. MALEA will play one more gig at the Dakota Music Lounge before shows with Crash Test Dummies and Counting Crows. The dates begin Saturday, June 5 at the Dakota Music Lounge for a Breast Cancer Awareness Concert with Alyssa Jacey, Mandi Perkins and Marina V. Later that week, MALEA will head down the coast for a Thursday, June 10 show with Crash Test Dummies at the Brixton in Redondo Beach. And she’ll spend 4th of July weekend opening for the Counting Crows at Milwaukee’s Summerfest, one of largest music festivals in the Midwest,
Audiences along the way will hear songs from MALEA’s CLOSE AS AIR album, along with tracks from her previous album and some of her favorite cover songs. The new album–from the formally trained world-class singer–features MALEA’s warm, sensual vocals and reflects a mix of her contemporary pop, country and R&B musical influences.
On CLOSE AS AIR’s newly released first single, the rocking “Spinning” (already at radio), MALEA empowers her listeners to keep their identities in a world that is “spinning so fast/we don’t know if this will last/we’re holding our ground/don’t give up now/though it’s hard to be somehow.” Two other stylistic directions are represented by the country-flavored “Birthday” and the orchestral soul of “Tonight,” which celebrates finally finding her one true love after the bittersweet romantic misfires of “Memories,” about her time as a struggling performer in New York City (“You were mine/For a time/And I knew you/For awhile”), and “No More,” where she gets rid of a troublesome ex (“Crazy doesn’t work with me no more”).
Elsewhere, “Falling” and “Time Will Show” are about being able to count on your friends for support in times of crisis, while her cover of the standard “Water Is Wide,” an Appalachian mountain song that could have come straight off the T Bone Burnett-produced O Brother Where Art Thou?, demonstrates her love for what she calls “real country music”: “Give me a boat/That can carry two/And both shall row/My love and I.”
For more information, please visit:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Malea-McGuinness/137656254576?ref=ts#
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