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Highlighting what a voice and talent she has, this is an album boiling over with quality that is simply of the highest possible standard.
Bringing you her debut fourteen-track album with such a great sound to it which gives off the aura of something that is very personal to Hendrick. With all songs written and produced by her, this is very much an album evident of the fact that you don't need a big-named producer and studio to create a sublime record. With a beginning to make the Eagles most envious, Devil Wine includes some very fine vocals and harmonies that would lift any miser's heart. When the highest pitch is hit on this track it is just simply amazing to hear it happening. Texas Don't Have You begins with an upbeat groove that never lets up. With her vocals never falling below expectations, it seems to fly by like an express train. This is a very descriptive track, as it depicts what Hendrick prefers about the Lone Star State over her lover and is certainly a track which has been added to my list to catch live.
The best song of the fourteen, and most amusing, is The Pony Song. Including an element of social commentary as well as how Hendrick wishes to own a pony, it has such a happy sound that it sounds very akin to the ever popular Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Tahn You Think). The guitar picking never intrudes on Hendrick's toes, and this just adds to the song's quality as many a song has been ruined by over-zealous picking. Fallen Angel seems like a song which the much-missed Johnny Cash never got around to recording. Maybe if this song had been released at the turn of the century then Rick Rubin might have included this on his and Cash's American albums. Its pace is very quick and rapid, and is amply helped out on both acoustic and slide guitar. - Maverick Magazine, UK May 2009
Highlighting what a voice and talent she has, this is an album boiling over with quality that is simply of the highest possible standard.
Bringing you her debut fourteen-track album with such a great sound to it which gives off the aura of something that is very personal to Hendrick. With all songs written and produced by her, this is very much an album evident of the fact that you don't need a big-named producer and studio to create a sublime record. With a beginning to make the Eagles most envious, Devil Wine includes some very fine vocals and harmonies that would lift any miser's heart. When the highest pitch is hit on this track it is just simply amazing to hear it happening. Texas Don't Have You begins with an upbeat groove that never lets up. With her vocals never falling below expectations, it seems to fly by like an express train. This is a very descriptive track, as it depicts what Hendrick prefers about the Lone Star State over her lover and is certainly a track which has been added to my list to catch live.
The best song of the fourteen, and most amusing, is The Pony Song. Including an element of social commentary as well as how Hendrick wishes to own a pony, it has such a happy sound that it sounds very akin to the ever popular Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Tahn You Think). The guitar picking never intrudes on Hendrick's toes, and this just adds to the song's quality as many a song has been ruined by over-zealous picking. Fallen Angel seems like a song which the much-missed Johnny Cash never got around to recording. Maybe if this song had been released at the turn of the century then Rick Rubin might have included this on his and Cash's American albums. Its pace is very quick and rapid, and is amply helped out on both acoustic and slide guitar. - Maverick Magazine, UK May 2009
Discography
CD: Water In The Well (2008)
CD: Lucky Girl (2012)
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Bio
The May 2009 issue of Maverick Magazine (Maverick-Country.com) contains a review of Marcia's 2008 CD, "Water in the Well". Receiving 5 out of 5 stars, the review says in part, "Highlighting what a voice and talent she has, this is an album boiling over with quality that is simply of the highest possible standard."
An award-winning songwriter, Marcia writes story songs that span genres, packed with emotional content and lyrics that connect the listener to the common well of human experience. Her songs are celebrations of life and love in its tender and quirky glory, full of laughter and sorrow, hurt and healing. Born in Montana and raised in Massachusetts, she grew up in a household filled with music and musical instruments, and spent her formative years listening to classical, folk, and pop music, as well as blues and country. Marcia released her first CD, "Water In The Well" in 2008. Her second CD, "Lucky Girl" was released in January 2012. The Title track was included in the 2012 Alternate Root’s Valentine’s Day CD Sampler. Marcia performs in Western Massachusetts on a regular basis, toured to New Orleans, Austin and Nashville in 2012, and played in Eugene, Oregon this past summer.
Marcia also hosts an open mic, and is committed to enabling local community involvement in the performing arts.
"Wheatland County Line", a song from her 2008 release, won the 2007 We Are Listening Lyric Writers Contest.
Marcia has been influenced by songwriters such as John Prine, Gillian Welch, John Hiatt, Merle Haggard, Steve Earle and Warren Zevon.
Marcia's website: http://www.treepoppy.com/
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