Mark Erelli

Mark Erelli: Not your typical honky tonker (Mar 2004)

Mark Erelli realizes that he doesn't exactly fit the ideal of the prototypical "country" singer and songwriter raised on a hardscrabble farm in the rural South, plucking out mournful ballads on a $5 Sears guitar in the short respites between long, hard days in the fields or coal mines. As he savors the reaction, thus far enthusiastic and approving, to his new hard-core, honky-tonk Signature Sounds release "Hillbilly Pilgrim," the self-described "folk singer" readily acknowledges that his upbringing was that of a typical suburban Boston kid.  ...