Maia Sharp has released several albums during her time in Los Angeles, but has been better known as a âsongwritersâ songwriter,â penning tunes for the likes of The Chicks, Lisa Loeb and Trisha Yearwood. After moving to Nashville, Sharp looked up guitarist Joshua Grange to record the tracks at his Resistor Studio, and Ryan Hewitt mixed the resulting album.
Sharp collaborated with a host of songwriters to come up with a dozen original tunes. The resulting
Mercy Rising (Crooked Crown Records) is a classic among songwriter albums.
Sharpâs delivery has the husky, frank, not-gonna-lie quality found in Canadian songwriters Kathleen Edwards and Sarah Harmer. Grangeâs mixing brings Sharpâs voice to the fore so the listener canât push the music into the background. The lyrics in tracks like âBackburnerâ and âNot Your Friendâ more than live up to what the music demands. In fact, as one stunning song follows another, itâs hard to id
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Instead, they’re finding inspiration and releasing some new music.
“And we’ve been working on a lot of co-writes during quarantine,” says Sav Buist as she sat alongside bandmates Katie Larson and Michael Dause. “Not something we ever expected to do, came about very serendipitously…”
The three have been back in Northern Michigan creating all kinds of new material.
“We decided to record the songs that came out of it, that really set up kind of a time period that we were living through, and are hopefully a good sendoff of moving forward.”
The Accidentals will be joined by Dar Williams, Tom Paxton, Kim Richey, and Maia Sharp as the City Opera House presents The Accidentals: Time Out Virtual EP Release show. All are co-writers on the new EP “TIMEOUT.”
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Music Reviews: Three Stops at the Doo-wop Shop, Plus Maia Sharp and Ted Russell Kamp
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Rock has experienced many phases over the decades but to these ears none more lovable than one of its earliest: doo-wop, the harmony-vocal-based music that helped to bridge the gap from 40s R&B to 50s rock and pop.
If you were born too late to experience this genre in its prime, you should get acquainted via the excellent crash course offered by Rhino s Doo Wop Box series, which delivers more than 300 essential tracks on a trio of four-CD sets. After that, though, you ll likely want to dig deeper, and three fine places to do that are new collections from the Ravens, the Larks, and the Harptones. Unlike many anthologies of reissued oldies material, these all feature impressively comprehensive programs and excellent sound quality as well as detailed track information and informative liner notes.