07 Jul Beyond the Groove: Music on the Green Returns with Alex Maryol, 7/10!
Beyond the Groove Productions and the Telluride Mountain Village Owners Association (TMVOA) presents Alex Maryol for Music on the Green, Friday, July 10 from 5-7p.m., Reflection Plaza in Mountain Village.
To learn more about Music on the Green, contact the Telluride Mountain Village Owners Association (TMVOA) at (970) 728-1904 or visit tmvoa.org and facebook.com/BeyondTheGroove.
Go here to learn more about Denise Mongan’s Beyond the Groove Productions.
Go here to learn more about TMVOA.
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Go here to sample Maryol’s sound for his “Telluride.”
Justin and Alex
Alex’s latest album will be his eighth entry in a musical journey that began with him as a blues prodigy. He’s since matured into a critically-acclaimed alt-blues artist.
Alex’s vocals exude a sweet grit and, on guitar, he is a slow-burn virtuoso adept at conjuring muddy Mississippi river blues, gritty indie rock, buttery R&B, and sweat-soaked Chicago-style blues with an unmistakable swagger.
Alex has opened for a wide array of artists, including Etta James; G. Love and Special Sauce; Bo Diddley; Bonnie Raitt; Lyle Lovett; Leon Russell; Corey Harris; Blues Traveler; and Otis Taylor, among others. He’s made incendiary appearances at the Telluride Blues and Brews Festival and the King Biscuit Blues Festival. Two of his songs have been selected to appear in the Guy Pierce thriller “First Snow,”(2007), directed by Mark Fergus. Alex also earned the “Best Blues Song” award at the New Mexico’s MIC Awards.
His latest release, In The Meantime, is both a rebirth and a return.
In 2003, Alex released the gutsy bluesy album Make Everything Alright, and decided to revisit that unvarnished approach on his latest, focusing on electric guitar workouts and, most importantly, heartfelt song-craft. To that end, he enlisted Make Everything Alright’s engineer, Tim Stroh, (Dwight Yoakam, Robbie Robertson, David Jacobs-Strain), and recorded at Tim’s new studio in Leadville, Colorado, Mad House Recorders.
In The Meantime is boldly reflective and vulnerable. The 11-song collection spans swampy Delta blues, smoldering slow-burn soul, classic rock riff-rock, and moody jazz-tinged balladry. The spiritually uplifting “Love Is What We Are Made For” melds stanky vamp-blues with emotive pop-rock hooks. Later on in the album, Alex imaginatively revisits this track with a slinky groove which adds a soul-stirring dynamic to the song’s purposeful message.
Beyond the Groove’s purposeful message?
Don’t miss Alex Maryol.
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