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Statue of Liberty rough mix
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Statue of Liberty rough mix
Released: Feb 21, 2008
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  1. Mike Felten

    I have the next two weekends off. Rest, repair and balm my worried soul. :)

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General Info

  • Genre: Acoustic / Blues / Folk Rock

    Location CHICAGO, Un

    Profile Views: 115825

    Last Login: 3/19/2013

    Member Since 1/26/2005

    Website www.mikefelten.com

    Record Label Landfill Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    "Mike Felten ... has something most folks have long since given up on - a conscience. Trust your politicians? Better find your common sense first." Big O Magazine -Singapore .. .. In 2010 Mike has continued his never ending tour from sold out shows in New York City to raucous country clubs in Dallas to playing for autoworkers at the assembly line in Detroit or neo-punks , evangelical Christians and everyone who would listen for a moment or two. Mike is happy to play in your living room, concert hall, saloon, coffee shop or the back of your flat bed truck. .. .. He is the "Real Deal" -according to the Illinois Entertainer... .. Folkways artist/legend, Bob Everhart tells us that "Woody would've been proud" of what Mike is doing. .. Hope you'll agree and check him out real soon .. Mike has been out playing since the 1960's. A veteran of rock, country and blues bands. Mike sat in Muddy Waters bedroom, had Buddy Guy show him around the blues clubs where Willie Dixon, Junior Wells and Mighty Joe Young among others were hanging out. Mike played folk gigs at places like the Fifth Peg, Somebody Elses Troubles, Holsteins and Orphans in Chicago, alongside guys like Steve Goodman and John Prine. .. .. For all you alumni geeks out there,Mike was booted out of LANE TECH HIGH SCHOOL in Chicago. He finally graduated from the old CENTRAL YMCA HIGH SCHOOL that graduated neer do wells like MIKE ROYKO, MIKE BLOOMFIELD and BARRY GOLDBERG. He went to CENTRAL YMCA COMMUNITY COLLEGE for two years before graduating from the creative writing program at COLUMBIA COLLEGE. Lifelong kudos to teachers, JOHN SCHULTZ, BETTY SHIFLETT, HARRY MARK PETRAKIS and PAUL PEKIN. He founded the Record Emporium in 1979 and has been selling music continually since then. He has had stores in three states and is currently located in Chicago and online at www.recordemporium.com. For the last ten or so years, Mike has been associated with the UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA. Boomer Sooner! The 1980's saw Mike in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan living on a farm and playing with country rock cover bands until guys like Pete Seeger and Utah Phillips discovered Mike's folkier/political side. He played the 75th Anniversary of the I.W.W. and places like the Hiawatha Folk Festival, Rhinelander Festival and Pike Lake. Returning to Chicago in the 1990's , Mike found work playing heavy metal bass in a band called Lobotomy. Played some roots rock with the Redones and, coming full circle, settled into a weekly blues gig with Bellyful of Soul where guys like Pinetop Perkins, Roosevelt 'Booba' Barnes, Pete Myers, or Dancin' Perkins were likely to sit in... .. Mike has contributed to the television show 'Cupid" and the motion pictures,"Love Jones" Dualmania" and "High Fidelity" as a set advisor and an extra. He just finished another acting turn in a video for the band "Hotel Lights" featuring members of Ben Folds and the Archers of Loaf... ,br> Finally in 2002, Mike, tired of 'playing rhythm guitar behind Jesus' booked some time at Acme Studio and recorded 'Landfill' with Devin Davis engineering. .. After a couple of surgeries and some rehab on a bad knee, Mike went in the studio again. With BILL GLAHN producing, Mike laid down the basic tracks at LOU WHITNEY's (SKELETONS,MORELLS) studio in Springfield, MO. He took the rough tracks up to Third Ear Studio in Minneapolis where TOM HERBERS (LOW,JAYHAWKS)engineered sessions with JOHN ELLER and DAVE BOQUIST of SON VOLT adding multi-instruments. The entire album was mixed back at THE STUDIO in Springfield,MO and masteried with RANDY KLING down in Nashville. Randy has mastered all the RCA acts from WAYLON to PORTER WAGONER to ALICE COOPER. Made it all sound great. Always working on the next project and there is always a new song or an unearthed oldie. Mike currently has no songs about cats or about how depressed he is, but you never can tell, he might come up with one...

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  • Influences

    Bristol, Tennessee recordings. Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Southern Gospel, Shape singing,Acoustic Blues, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Post War Chicago blues. Muddy, Wolf, Willie Dixon, Willie Love, Louisiana Red. Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb, the Bakersfield Sound, Tony Joe White, Willie, Waylon, Outlaw Country, Billy Joe Shaver, Kris Kristofferson, Woody Guthrie, Utah Phillips, Albert King, Curtis Mayfield, Ike Turner, Buddy Holly, Bobby Fuller, Chuck Berry,Pete Seeger,Dalton Trumbo,Kurt Vonnegut,MLK,Ralph Nader

  • Sounds Like

    ."I come to you in troubled times." Utah Phillips used to say that. It seems like the times were always troubled, but now they seem especially hard. Traveling around it isn't hard to spot the foreclosure signs, the empty storefronts and the folks all hanging around looking for a break to come rolling down the street. There is no place for me in this world except with a guitar in my hand -it is my shovel and my plow- singing my songs for you. We aren't alone in this. I can see by your eyes you think you're beaten and you might see a little quit in my eyes too, but we can pool our strengths and beat this. Give me an hour or two of your time to replenish each other's faith. I'll hustle the gas money to get there. Hope you can buy a CD or a t-shirt to help me down the road. As always, thanks. Mike Felten. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

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