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fave it Modern Folk | like Ani
13 tracks | 62 minutes
Released Mar 2004
on Empty Beach Records
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Folk, Soul, Alternative Rock, and a little bit of Country. Acoustic.
Bio / Background
A native to New Haven, CT, Molly currently divides her time between
Austin TX and Guanajuato, Mexico. She loves Austin for the music, the
people, and the energy but every once in a while it’s necessary to
escape to the quite calm of a small town in Mexico to decompress. And
of course, write music.
Molly comes from a musical family, and has been playing guitar and
singing with her mother as long as she can remember. She started
writing her own songs at 16. While a student at Williams College she
took a winter study songwriting class that really inspired her to hone
her skills. When she played on campus, even rambunctious college
co-eds would become calmly mesmerized, hanging on her every lyric.
After college, freed from the distraction of academics and her three
varsity sports, she pursued music seriously. She spent one year in the
ski town of Ketchum ID where she recorded her self-titled debut album
on Empty Beach Records.
↓ more ↓In 2004 she relocated to Austin and, between
jobs and gigs, worked on her second album Love Me Like You Mean It,
released in 2006.
Molly composes in a wide range of styles drawing from folk, soul,
alternative rock, and a bit of country. She is one of those viscerally
compelling vocalists that come along only once in a while; it only
takes one song, one listen to know that she is the real thing.
Molly considers herself first and foremost a songwriter. "I've been so
inspired by the other artists here in Austin, and I really just want
to keep writing better and better songs. If the goal is just to make
people feel better – to inspire them to tell their own story – I think
I already get to do that. I try to remind myself that everything else
resulting from my attempt at carving out a living playing music is
just icing."
↑ less ↑Average Customer Review: 5
Excellent album!bluesandstuff wrote on December 23, 2008
This is Molly Venter's first album. I discovered her work first via the 2006 release "Love Me Like You Mean It". She has recently (May 2008) re-released that album with a band accompaniment. All offer great music, this being more reflective, predominantly self-accompanied. Her voice is particularly distinctive - haunting, emotive, expressive and compelling. Since finding this she has turned up in other odd places, such as doing Jonie Mitchell and Leonard Cohen covers with Will Taylor. Give this a listen. It is way, way above most of the singer-songwriter stuff you will encounter.










