“Home” – the new album from Nashville artist, Louise Mosrie, creates a world of lush detail and wide-open emotion drawing on the sensual imagery of the Deep South.
“Excellent, great songs and your singing is really good and soulful.” – Lloyd Maines, Grammy award-winning producer, musician and songwriter
Louise’s original songs on “Home” combine Americana, bluegrass and folk melodies and stories in ways that are fresh and charming with a warm vocal delivery and tasteful musical arrangements. From the title track that paints sweet moving pictures of home to the painful history of West Virginia coal miners in “Battle of Blair Mountain” to the quiet redemption of “Sweet Relief”, the songs are filled with deep feeling and uncommon descriptions. In May 2009, Louise was selected as one of the winners of the Kerrville New Folk Songwriting Competition in Kerrville, TX.
Produced by Jon Young and Louise Mosrie at Sonic Sculpture Studios in West Nashville, her self-penned songs are supported by the excellent musicianship of some of Nashville’s finest players. Byron House on bass (Sam Bush, Kathy Mattea), Scott Neubert on guitar/dobro/mandolin/lap steel/banjo (Irene Kelley, Hal Ketchum, Donna Ulisse), Matt Combs on fiddle (Ray Price, Marty Stuart, Elizabeth Cook), Steve Cirkvencic on electric guitar (Jeffrey Steele) and Tom Ball on harmonica.
Louise’s British parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 1960’s for work finally settling on a farm on fifty acres in middle Tennessee. Born in Delaware and moving to the South as a child, she had trouble reconciling the two cultures around her and initially shunned all things Southern. Louise began writing pop/folk songs in her early 20s while living in Knoxville after college, producing two independent albums before moving to Nashville in 2004 to work on her song-craft. There, she made friends and contacts in the Americana and bluegrass side of Nashville, playing rounds and writing with artists like Donna Ulisse & Rick Stanley, Diana Jones and producer Ray Kennedy. Ironically, the melodies and imagery that emerged most strongly in her writing on Home come straight from the southern culture she once dismissed. Influenced by artists such as Nanci Griffith, Allison Kraus and Lucinda Williams, her songs tell stories of joy, love, struggle and heartbreak through the vivid characters and scenery of southern life.
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