Freddy Fender, Jesse Mae Hempill,Ry Cooder, Calexico, Ennio Morricone,Los Super Seven, Michelle Shocked, Richard Buckner, RL Burnside and anything else that has substance, melody and groove. damit...
Rising from the snowdrifts and frozen lakes of St. Paul comes
Molly Maher & her Disbelievers. Carving out a place for themselves
with cinamatic visions of love lost and found, landscapes filled with
REAL TIMELESS ROOTS music.
Using Molly's plaintiff vocals and HONEST writting, she makes the
highway seem lonesome at first, but armed with lush guitar hooks and
driving rhythms, she'll never let you lose your way.
Born with the affliction of being left handed she's adapted her playing style by flipping a right handed guitar upside down;ala Elizabeth Cotton.
Just looking at her gear gives a pretty good idea of her sound. '38 Regal/Dobro resonator
'40 Gibson L-00
"32 Martin 0-17 ( one of the most recorded guitars used in Mpls.
Sessions range from Soul Asylum to Jeff Tweedy with Golden Smog and
Joanna James.
'62 Fender brownfaced Princeton
custom built Savage Mact 12 with twin 8 speakers ,
and many Silvertones.
THE DISBELIEVERS
Maher's backing band is made up of a stellar crew of musicians. It's
a sweet blend of folk, bluesy, elecric-organfied and county-fried rock.
Disbelievers include but are not limited to:
Erik Koskinen,Paul Bergen, Brad Mattson,Steve Murray, Lynda Crotty, Frankie Lee,Matt Novachis,Noah Levy,Mark O'Day,Nick Johnson,Paul MAnske,John Rodine,Jennifer MArkey,Zak Swanson, Javier Trejo,
Peter Sands, Tony Johnson,Paul Odegaard,
Brad Konkel, John Moline, Razz, Thomas
Case,Kari Howe, Brett Brdas, and Billy Hawn.
PRESS:
"One of the 10 best local cd's..."Chris Riemenschneider-Star and Tribune
"Her music is a window to the lonely world of a nomadic spirit, someone who has loved and lost at love, someone who has lived the existence of a vagabond dreamer...and then there's her voice, the apparent lovechild of Ricki Lee Jones and Bonnie Raitt." Richard Thomas - Reader Weekly
Maher steps out from the pack of Americana/alt-country songwriters
"With this month's release of her second record, "Balms of Gilead," Maher steps out from the pack of Americana/alt-country songwriters in the Twin Cities. Never mind that she already stood out by being a woman with a previously all-male band in a mostly male-dominated genre.
As the album title suggests, "Balms" is awash in healing-powered songs and desert-y soundscapes. Lucinda Williams is the most obvious comparison it deserves, especially with wounded-poet songs such as "Let's Pretend We Never Have Met." But the disc's many different moods also show traces of Daniel Lanois-produced Bob Dylan and the Latin-ish acoustic work of Calexico and Los Lobos. Like Bonnie Raitt, Maher clearly can play guitar but seems more focused on being a singer/songwriter." Chris Riemenchneider - Star Tribune
Sets them apart from other artists.
"Molly Maher and her Disbelievers command the stage with their rootsy charm but it's their ability to perform haunting low-fi ballads and whip them into full blown rockin' epics that sets them apart from other artists." James "Taco" Martin - E Company
All hail the new honky-tonk heroine
"Maher's got a lived-in voice whose weariness is bouyed by a fierce underlying ambition and an obvious love of music and people." Jim Walsh - City Pages
Review of Balms of Gilead
As a songwriter, Maher brings a fine feeling of restlessness to tunes like "3200 Miles" and also wonderfully puts a personal stamp on Blind Willie J Johnson's "Soul of A Man," making wholly her own. The Onion
Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers's Friend Space (Top 23)
Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers has 1152 friends.
Hey Molly!, When can you come and play your music for us in st cloud some thursday night? It's much harder now for me to get down there on wednesdays...
Molly~Thanks for the beautiful music that you & your band shared with us last night.....it was a wonderful tribute & celebration of Chris...."Turn to Grey" brought tears to our eyes.... The Teardrops
Deb Ludwig and a couple of her friends lean up against the back bar at Nye’s Polonaise Room as, six feet away, Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers roil through Maher’s classic would-be bar romance “Let’s Pretend We Never Have Met.” It’s another Wednesday at Nye’s, which means that Maher and her band—as first-rate a bunch of in-the-pocket country-rock players as can be found in any bar in the country--are seizing the night, the way they have every Wednesday night for the past two years.
“I want to tell everyone, but I don’t want to tell everyone,” says Ludwig, a school social worker from Minneapolis. “I want to keep it quiet. It’s a little treasure, and I don’t want it to be a big scene so I have to stand in line to get in. To me, part of the charm is the hiddenness of it, the small venue.” She stops. “So go ahead and ruin it for me, tiger.”
With pleasure: At Nye’s, the American flag fights for stage time with a banner proclaiming the Ruth Adams Band to be “The World’s Most Dangerous Polka Band.” If that is so, then it must also be said that The Disbelievers are the most dangerous roadhouse country-rock bar band in the land. Some of the best players in town gather weekly behind Maher to flesh out her honky-tonk-soul-funk-rock originals, and rip it up on mostly obscure country cover tunes.
Hi Molly, thanks for the add. Pity that you're so far away. I would like to see you live and listen to your beautiful songs. Maybe someday. Best wishes, LB
Thank you for the support and friendship!! you rock!! wishing you all the best in all you do!! from your friends here at the BREILSTYLE MUSIC CO..BMC..
Hey Molly, I've been listening. I like the organ on your new songs, especially on Sault St. Marie. Reminds me of old Bob Dylan and The Band recordings, only better. Sorry Bob.
