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The first track from Baltimore singer/songwriter Andrew Grimms last offering Mountain Halo dealt the imperative, Break down the door. What followed on that album was ten intimate tracks quickly written and recorded in February of 2005. As a participant of February Album Writing Month, Andrew accepted the challenge to write fourteen songs in twenty-eight days. Mountain Halo was recorded in his bedroom using two mikes, a borrowed digital recorder, and four pounds of coffee. He then went one-step farther and cleaned up eleven of those tracks, produced an album, and booked a short southern tour to support his efforts. Fairly impressive for someone nobody really knows about.
Being the mainstay center of June Star for eight years, Andrew has been quietly developing his songs with little regards to commercial, local, or national recognition. Seems to me that thats the way to be, under the coffee mug of the guy manning the radar. But I dont look at that as being a bad thing, every disc is more promising than the last and I constantly look forward to hearing someone tell me, Youre good! You know you should really be playing the Recher. Although it seems a bit out of my grasp; but then again, thats where goals and dreams are born, the places that are out of my reach.
In the previous years Andrew has released four June Star albums and has been included on several compilations including Hungry For Musics Holiday Feast Vol. IV featuring his Christmas lament, Merry Xmas from Antietam. He has toured twice to Alabama; performed on NPR stations in New York City, Detroit, East Lansing, and South Carolina; and continues to play local acoustic shows to at least two enthusiastic people and at the most, five folks to whom hes not related.
As this year begins Andrew is prepping his band, June Star, to record new tunes for a possible EP, stretching his writing muscles for FAWM, and completing his first studio solo album. I think that I should be keeping as busy as possible in as many projects as time allows. Im never quite sure when songs will appear so they can be written down, so I kind of just keep busy.
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