Michael Logen
Nashville, Tennessee, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2008 | INDIE | AFTRA
Music
Press
"He has a voice that lends itself to heartbreak so easily yet it never sounds truly defeated.. to the point that you root for him because you feel that if anybody should win, it's him and you’re sure that one day he will." - The Plugg (www.theplugg.com)
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http://www.theplugg.com/2007/05/30/an-evening-with-michael-logen/ - The Plugg (May 30th 2007)
"Logen is a true poet, not only lyrically, but musically.. he entices the listener down a path of true things - true emotions, true questions, and any other true thing that happen to be on the way.” - The Nashville Feed (www.nashvillefeed.com)
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http://www.nashvillefeed.com/node/80 - The Nashville Feed (Oct 4th 2007)
Michael Logen – Things I Failed to Mention
by Janet Goodman
Music that will move you – that is a real good way to describe the masterful CD by Nashville pop singer/songwriter Michael Logen, “Things I Failed to Mention”. All eleven tracks on this project are artfully crafted and produced by Logen, where he also worked side by side behind the board with producers Joe West, Jeff Peck, Gordy Sampson and Chris Farren, with whom he also co-wrote the song, “Rearrange the Rain”. A much sought-after songwriter, Logen has collaborated with artists such as Jonny Lang, Mat Kearney and Katherine McPhee. It’s no wonder: he knows how to write a hit song.
What is utterly apparent after the opening line of track one is that we are listening to someone special. Logen is a patchwork of powerful influences: imagine the warm and intimate vocals of Paul Simon, poetic lyrics of Shawn Colvin, throw in soaring choruses driven home by a John Legend piano, and you can begin to picture what this album is all about.
Right out of the box is the aptly titled “Amazing”; with Logen at the keys, the melody gets in your skin as he sings about the end of a relationship: “This ol’ ferris wheel has a different feel/I swear it used to go higher/We were hoping for maybe something more/Maybe set this world on fire/ So much for amazing/My whole world is breaking down now”. Hooks are a-plenty on this record. We are swept up in the repetitive, infectious chorus in “Movin to You”: “I’ve always been movin to you/I’m the rain, you’re the ocean I’m runnin into/I’ve always been movin to you/Oh I’ve never stopped runnin/I’ve always been movin to you”. “Mystery” is produced twice on the CD, where the acoustic version, complete with luscious cello, piano and guitars, can enrapture as much as the lyric about the unsolved puzzle called a woman: “She’s a side of God I’ve never seen in my own soul/A whisper of the way we ought to be/She’s a soft reminder of the world when it was whole/And part of her is just beyond my reach/Cause she wants to be a mystery/And I know I’ve never found her”.
The piece de la resistance has got to be “Ocean Floor”, with its haunting and hushed vocal that will make you hold your breath for fear of not catching each delectable syllable. The lyric is quite the enigma. Is it about suicide? Falling in love? Baptism, as suggested on his MySpace site? “Well, I guess I could’ve stayed ashore/I didn’t have to go/They say sometimes to find yourself/You gotta let go/And the water’s cold around me now/So far below/And I hear a voice beside me now/Just try to let go”.
There is so much to like on “Things I Failed to Mention”: big memorable choruses, polished contemporary productions, well-crafted commercial folky pop tunes with enough artisty so that they are not cookie-cutter, and a confident and compelling singer who has star quality. Michael Logen’s is a career to watch.
For more on this artist go to www.myspace.com/michaellogen
(c) 2005-2009 MNN Enterprises, LLC. Music News Nashville is designed, owned
and published by Dan Harr. All rights reserved.
- Music News Nashville
Michael Logen – Things I Failed to Mention
by Janet Goodman
Music that will move you – that is a real good way to describe the masterful CD by Nashville pop singer/songwriter Michael Logen, “Things I Failed to Mention”. All eleven tracks on this project are artfully crafted and produced by Logen, where he also worked side by side behind the board with producers Joe West, Jeff Peck, Gordy Sampson and Chris Farren, with whom he also co-wrote the song, “Rearrange the Rain”. A much sought-after songwriter, Logen has collaborated with artists such as Jonny Lang, Mat Kearney and Katherine McPhee. It’s no wonder: he knows how to write a hit song.
What is utterly apparent after the opening line of track one is that we are listening to someone special. Logen is a patchwork of powerful influences: imagine the warm and intimate vocals of Paul Simon, poetic lyrics of Shawn Colvin, throw in soaring choruses driven home by a John Legend piano, and you can begin to picture what this album is all about.
Right out of the box is the aptly titled “Amazing”; with Logen at the keys, the melody gets in your skin as he sings about the end of a relationship: “This ol’ ferris wheel has a different feel/I swear it used to go higher/We were hoping for maybe something more/Maybe set this world on fire/ So much for amazing/My whole world is breaking down now”. Hooks are a-plenty on this record. We are swept up in the repetitive, infectious chorus in “Movin to You”: “I’ve always been movin to you/I’m the rain, you’re the ocean I’m runnin into/I’ve always been movin to you/Oh I’ve never stopped runnin/I’ve always been movin to you”. “Mystery” is produced twice on the CD, where the acoustic version, complete with luscious cello, piano and guitars, can enrapture as much as the lyric about the unsolved puzzle called a woman: “She’s a side of God I’ve never seen in my own soul/A whisper of the way we ought to be/She’s a soft reminder of the world when it was whole/And part of her is just beyond my reach/Cause she wants to be a mystery/And I know I’ve never found her”.
The piece de la resistance has got to be “Ocean Floor”, with its haunting and hushed vocal that will make you hold your breath for fear of not catching each delectable syllable. The lyric is quite the enigma. Is it about suicide? Falling in love? Baptism, as suggested on his MySpace site? “Well, I guess I could’ve stayed ashore/I didn’t have to go/They say sometimes to find yourself/You gotta let go/And the water’s cold around me now/So far below/And I hear a voice beside me now/Just try to let go”.
There is so much to like on “Things I Failed to Mention”: big memorable choruses, polished contemporary productions, well-crafted commercial folky pop tunes with enough artisty so that they are not cookie-cutter, and a confident and compelling singer who has star quality. Michael Logen’s is a career to watch.
For more on this artist go to www.myspace.com/michaellogen
(c) 2005-2009 MNN Enterprises, LLC. Music News Nashville is designed, owned
and published by Dan Harr. All rights reserved.
- Music News Nashville
Written by Dee Liddle
"Gearing up for the release of his new album this fall, Michael Logen announced a few tour dates coming up. Things have gone well for Logen since his most recent album, Things I Failed To Mention, was released in June 2007. He has since toured and gone on a writing trip with Mat Kearney. Some of his songs from Things I Failed To Mention were also recently featured on MTV's Real World and ABC's Kyle XY.
Logen has added a few awards to his resume as well, including the International Songwriting Competition's 2009 Song of the Year Award in the Folk/Singer-Songwriter Category, and Unisong International Songwriting Competition's 2009 Song of the Year in the Americana Category.
Currently, Michael has scheduled the following tour dates:
9/11: Athens, GA @ Classic Center Theater w/Sister Hazel
9/12: Mobile, AL @ The Soul Kitchen w/Sister Hazel
9/18: Nashville, TN @ The Ryman Auditorium w/Jonny Lang
9/27: Houston, TX @ House of Blues w/Jonny Lang"
- Acedmagazine.com (an alternative way of thinking)
Making his mark in music business
SUCCESS STORY — Michael Logen, a 1995 graduate of Meadowbrook Christian school, is climbing the ladder of success in the music world. The “folk pop” musician has opened for several national recording artists, and expects to release his second album early next year. Photo provided.
By Kevin Mertz
Published:
Saturday, October 3, 2009 12:49 AM CDT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A 1995 graduate of Meadowbrook Christian School, Milton, is making his mark in the music world.
Michael Logen, of Nashville, Tenn., grew up in a home along Colonel John Kelly Road, near West Milton, the son of Al and Ada Longenecker. The couple still live in the Union County home where Logen was raised.
The musician noted he changed his last name about 10 years ago because “Longenecker just wouldn’t fit on a poster.”
Logen is presently working on his second album, to be released early next year, and has opened for national recording artists Sister Hazel and Jonny Lang. - The Standard Journal
Making his mark in music business
SUCCESS STORY — Michael Logen, a 1995 graduate of Meadowbrook Christian school, is climbing the ladder of success in the music world. The “folk pop” musician has opened for several national recording artists, and expects to release his second album early next year. Photo provided.
By Kevin Mertz
Published:
Saturday, October 3, 2009 12:49 AM CDT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A 1995 graduate of Meadowbrook Christian School, Milton, is making his mark in the music world.
Michael Logen, of Nashville, Tenn., grew up in a home along Colonel John Kelly Road, near West Milton, the son of Al and Ada Longenecker. The couple still live in the Union County home where Logen was raised.
The musician noted he changed his last name about 10 years ago because “Longenecker just wouldn’t fit on a poster.”
Logen is presently working on his second album, to be released early next year, and has opened for national recording artists Sister Hazel and Jonny Lang. - The Standard Journal
Discography
For The Dreamers - Single (feat. in TV show Heartland)
Darkness Within - Single (feat. in "SUITS" and Netflix' "The Rain")
"New Medicine" - (LP)
"World On Fire" - (EP - Netherlands release)
"Paper Thin" - Single
"Human After All" - Single
"Breaking Your Own Heart" - Single
"Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye" - Single
"Things I Failed To Mention" (LP)
"Lots and None At All" - Druthers (LP)
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Bio
Michael Logen is a Grammy-Nominated Folk/Americana Artist, a Grammy-Winning Songwriter and a Storyteller based in Nashville, Tennessee.
He packed up an old hatchback car with a few guitars and moved to Nashville after touring full-time across 48 States in the US, for nearly two years after high school, including playing many prisons.
After waiting tables and valet parking cars for a time in Nashville, he signed his first publishing deal and made an album.
With a rootsy, acoustic-driven sound and a raspy, emotive vocal, his story-telling strain of Americana has found it's way on to many TV shows like "Nashville", "Suits", "One Tree Hill", "Parenthood", "Heartland", "The Fosters", "Beauty And The Beast", "American Idol" as well The Rio Olympics, The Sochi Olympics, NPR and The BBC (including live appearances on "The Gaby Roslin Show", "The Jo Good Show" and "The Gerry Kelly Show")
He has opened for John Legend, India.Arie, John Hiatt, Jonny Lang, Sister Hazel, Mat Kearney, playing venues like The Ryman Auditorium, House Of Blues (New Orleans, Houston, Myrtle Beach), The Grand Ole Opry House, The Bitter End, City Winery, Liverpool Philharmonic, The Bedford (London), and appearing as a regular at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville.
He's toured the US, UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and Germany.
As a songwriter, he's also written songs for Kelly Clarkson (on Grammy-Winning Album "Stronger"), Mat Kearney, Marc Broussard, Jonny Lang, Paul Carrack (of "Mike And The Mechanics"), Will Hoge, Ashley Monroe, Sister Hazel, Delerium, Wonderland and many others.
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