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Influences
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Bruce Springsteen, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Fats Domino, The Band, Hank Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis, Blaze Foley, Townes, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Steve Earle, The Beatles, Big Mama Thornton, Etta James, Waylon Jennings, Lucinda Williams, Mary Gauthier, Gillian Welch, Joan Jett, Jessie Mae Hemphill, and countless others
Sounds Like
Achin In Yer Bones new album preview video - 2009
Romi Mayes live at The Cameron House Toronto, Ontario - March 2007 "Sweet Somethin Steady"
Romi Mayes Live at Myer Horowitz Theatre Edmonton, Alberta - 2007 "Long Way Home"
"This is the sort of sound you’d want to hear pouring out of roadhouses as you drive up expecting to get drunk and maybe fall in love." - Americana UK Magazine
"Music from the heart and soul, Romi makes it look easy." - Bob Harris, BBC
"Romi Mayes is the hardest-working person in the Americana scene right
now. That's good, because she has a great new record out, and it deserves
to be heard." - Slaid Cleaves, songwriter
From the centre of Canada, deep in the prairies, comes an unstoppable force that is becoming a household name across the globe: Romi Mayes. Suitably pronounced “Raw Me”, Mayes is a straight shooter with heart on your sleeve lyrics, edgy innuendo, and some serious bad ass guitar playing. She writes down home country blues about love, sex, drugs, and the road. She can be soft and sweet or just down right dirty.
Her latest release “Achin In Yer Bones” is another testament to exactly that. With no filters and no shame, she unravels herself layer by layer baring her being to her listeners from song to song. But honesty is only part of the charm, not the main talent here. Having won a WCMA Songwriter Of The Year award for her previous album “Sweet Somethin Steady” one can really hear where her true gift rests. On her new album, Mayes’ effortless, matter-of-fact lyrical style weaves poetically around fantastic production, credited to renowned producer Gurf Morlix (Lucinda Williams, Mary Gauthier) who also worked with her on acclaimed album “Sweet Somethin Steady” in 2006 which also won a WCMA award and a Whiskey Award for Album Of The Year.
It is no wonder a producer like Morlix would come up to Canada in the cold of winter from his home base in Texas to work with Mayes again. “Romi's writing on this new album is better than ever,” says Morlix. “She's got the flint and she's got the steel - everything she needs to take her anywhere she wants to go.”
Commonly referred to as the hardest working musician in Canada, Mayes tours steadily and relentlessly across the globe from solo shows in smaller venues to rowdy rockin bar shows to tightly arranged full band sold out theatre shows. She has shared the stage with the likes of Ricky Skaggs, Iris Dement, Guy Clark, Jim Cuddy, The Flatlanders, Slaid Cleaves, Martha Wainwright, Hayes Carll, Fred Eaglesmith, Corb Lund, Billy Joe Shaver, Sue Foley, Blackie and The Rodeo Kings, Dale Watson and many many more. Romi Mayes is charming, passionate, comedic, and with whiskey in one hand and a cigarette in the other can out-cuss any sailor on a Saturday night.
“Achin In Yer Bones” is available March 10, 2009 in Canada and The United States, and April 18, 2009 in Europe.
You guys were absolutely stellar last night! I am in awe every time I see you perform. Hope to catch at the Times on the 31st and we will make sure to get an article up and ready for the WCMA's in Sept :)
hey pretty lady - how you holdin' up? you're the baddest of the badass. hope to see you this summer. sleep when you can! saw gurf in toronto the other night, you shoulda been there. xo
I can't wait to see you on Friday at Lady of the Lake! Brandon is in for a real treat having such an amazing and hardworking musician in their presence!
Footage of Romi Mayes performing her song "If The Lord Don't Love You" from Old market Square in Winnipeg is now up on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln57ndCcUpg
Thanks for adding me. I heard your music for the first time in a taxi on my way home. Asked the driver and he told me that was Romi Mayes he played. Great music! Love from North Sweden
Great show last night at the ye old Townehouse in Sudbury. We are going to enjoy your new CD. Hey, it looks like you are no longer allergic to Sudbury, you did not sneeze even one time. We look forward to seeing you around these parts again.
Hi Romy, thank you for the great gig at bluesgarage hannover. pics, slideshow and videoclip on my site. Thank you for the friendship and have a good time. ROCK ON!!!! Ulli
Rom!! Wish I coulda been at the hometown release.. I know it was glorious. Anyway I was thinkin' about you. Lookin' forward to seeing you soon, when you hit T.O at The Shoe. Can't wait to trade records... love ya, GB
Hi, baby! Just wanted you to know they played your music on Sweden´s no 1 countryshow yesterday: http://www.sr.se/webbradio/webbradio.asp?type=broadcast&Id=1727905&BroadcastDate=&IsBlock=
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