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fave it Country Rock | Americana
10 tracks | 39 minutes
Released Oct 2004
on Sleeping Trout Music
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:51 Tell Her lyrics BUY MP3 02:51 Tell Her lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:51 Tell Her
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Americana .... this singer/songwriter with a “roots-rock” history and a soulful ease carries his listener into a time and place reminiscent of steel strings, guitar heroes, and great story-tellers like Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. A living music leg
Bio / Background
". . . earthy, solid song craft. It has a gentle but solid groove. It inspires. It mourns. It carries the listener through a range of emotions, always engaged and entertained. . . . a knack for telling a story that is simple, deceptively personal and universally understood." -
Don Hunger
Michael ONeill. Showcasing a new collection, this singer/songwriter with a "roots-rock" history and a soulful ease carries his listener into a time and place reminiscent of steel strings, guitar heroes, and great story-tellers like Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. A living music legend, ONeill comes armed with vignettes of open-eyed romance, highway drama, and hard-earned tenderness - vocalized with the assurance and attitude that comes only from experience.
One of 13 children, he got started in music early. At the age of 24, he cut his teeth opening his first tour for a then-unknown band called U2.
↓ more ↓By the time the tour ended in Los Angeles, ONeill found himself signed with legendary manager Don Arden (father of Sharon Osbourne). A record deal followed soon after. ONeill put together a band that featured a young John Shanks (now superstar producer of Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morrisette, Vertical Horizon, etc.), Kenny Gradney (Little Feat), and jazz saxophonist, Boney James. He spent the better part of the next ten years touring with the likes of Stevie Ray Vaughn and penning songs with Bob Weir (Grateful Dead), Steve Cropper (Booker T. and The MG's), and Jason Scheff (Chicago). His band held down a weekly gig at the hottest club in town, The Central (now The Viper Room), playing to packed houses. As the '90s approached, ONeill left Southern California for his hometown in the Pacific Northwest to raise horses and focus on his family. "I retreated to gain some perspective and try to keep my family together," ONeill says, "I did pretty good on the perspective part."
Quietly working on material for nearly a decade, ONeill found himself happily remarried and content. In 1999, he released "Dream On" to critical acclaim, garnering nation-wide airplay. His current work, "From the Beginning" is an uncommon album that documents an artist in his prime, a man who knows himself, strengths and weaknesses alike. Part country crooner, part haggard storyteller, ONeill makes a noise that is refreshingly classic. Drawing on heroes like Roy Orbison and Bob Dylan for inspiration, "From the Beginning" plays like old-time rock and roll, deceptively simple yet focused on craft and execution.
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