ARTIST: Mary Bue
TITLE: Boat With No Oars
LABEL: Cephalopod Records
GENRE: Folk
BITRATE: 218 kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 59min total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-04-07
RIP DATE: 2007-04-01
Track List
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1. Ain't Nobody 4:37
2. No Turning Back 3:10
3. Salt And Pepper 3:33
4. Gorgeous 5:13
5. West Is The West 3:11
6. My Sweet Warrior 1:16
7. The City Trees 5:25
8. Baby I Love You 3:44
9. Chocolate And Hawaii 4:52
10. Petunias 3:15
11. The Retina 2:35
12. Suitcase Full Of Feathers 4:24
13. Waltz 4:15
14. Big Mistake 5:12
15. Cypress Tree 4:43
Release Notes:
http://www.marybue.com
http://www.myspace.com/marybue
http://www.myspace.com/cephalopodrecords
A tree-climbing, knee-scraping, fingernail-painting youth named Mary Bue was
bribed by her mother to take piano lessons. From this early parental trickery
grew a passion for music. From this music appreciation grew a desire to create.
Now 25 year old Bue has written hundreds of quirky, melodic, evocative, and
frank songs on both piano and guitar and has performed these tunes throughout
the United States and the United Kingdom. Using insight from her bachelorÆs
degree in Psychology, imagery from weird dreams, snippets from conversations and
inspiration from heart ache, MaryÆs songs are far from mundane. She thanks her
mom profusely for the bribe . . .
Mary Bue likes creaky clanky pianos and falling asleep playing guitar. She wants
to sing to you about what she's cooking for dinner or what she dreamt about last
night. Sometimes carthartic, sometimes joyous and always bittersweet, this newly
transplanted minneapolitan is making a soft winter nest of music for you. Blend
the sound of Ben Folds' joyous piano pop, Carole King's earthy soul and Tori
Amos' quirky, intense intimacy and you'll get an idea of what Miss Bue sounds
like. In her teenage days, songs were born out of locking herself in her bedroom
with notebooks and her fender squire with a hot pink strap (ask her, she still
has it). Eleven years later, the twenty-five year old Bue has been the recipiant
of two artist residencies in Florida, nominated for Best Local Folk Act in
Providence, RI, toured nationally, led songwriting workshops and independently
released two full length albums with the third to be released APRIL 7th, 2007 in
Minneapolis. Her first album "Where the Monarchs Circled" (2001), was reviewed
by Low's Alan Sparhawk who said "While the last ten years have seen a good
handful of new piano-and-voice artists who are endlessly mimicked, Bue has a
unique feel of her own in her songs." Her latest release is a mash of mary's
songs and production; a bunch of wonderful musicians from Duluth and Minneapolis
and a few super talented sound engineers: Eric Swanson (Sacred Heart - Duluth),
Chris Mara (Nashville) and finally Mike Whitney & Tom Herbers from Third Ear
Studio in Minneapolis. This pixie haired troubador will soon be coming to a town
near you since she's paired up with Ripple Entertainment LLC and Cephalopod
Records. And more songs are sure to come from her travels as she tends to write
lots of poems on the road. Be sure to buy her a coffee or a nice glass of red
wine next time she sings in your town!