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Singer Malone embraces roots

Published: Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006 1:36 p.m. MST
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Singer/songwriter Michelle Malone said she didn't fully embrace her Southern-music roots until a couple of years ago.

"It's like growing up and finding out your mom was right about a lot of things in life," Malone said by phone from her home in Nashville. "You grow up not listening, and then you get to a point where you kind of grow up and realize your mom was right. That's kind of how it was with me with music. I grew up and realized that there were — and still are — a lot of good sounds that come from the South: rock 'n' roll, blues, country — the list goes on."

Malone said her favorite type of music is '70s rock. "The '70s (Rolling) Stones, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Brown — those artists stuck with me through everything. But when I started playing music on my own, I didn't want to sound like anyone but myself. I really didn't have a plan. I just started playing."

Her songwriting runs the gamut, from blues to rock to rhythm & blues to country ... just to name a few. Not surprisingly, she's toured with Joan Jett, The Indigo Girls, ZZ Top and Johnny Winter.

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With her new album, "Sugarfoot," Malone said she wanted to make fun music that got down to the essence of the human soul. "I wanted a stripped-down rock album. I wanted to simplify what I was doing at this juncture of my life. It's the bare quality of rock and blues. Furthermore, it isn't a perfect album.

"The mistakes are in there and are kept on the album to show that it's real. It would be so easy to make a perfect album with the studio technology these days, but making a perfect album is more an engineer's work rather than a musician's work. I wanted my album to be a musician's work, because I make music to make music."

If you go

What: Michelle Malone

Where: Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East

When: Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.

How much: $10

Phone: 467-8499 or 800-888-8499

Web: www.smithstix.com


E-mail: scott@desnews.com

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