Mark Erelli blindsided

​Mark Erelli (from the album Blindsided available as a self-release) (by Bryant Liggett)
Mark Erelli has a lot under his belt. Cases full of studio albums, songwriting credits, and collaborations find the Massachusetts native dipping his toes into bluegrass and Western Swing waters in addition to his Folkie and Roots Rock work. Mark Erelli is extremely visible, under-the-radar musician that can cross genres, sit in comfortably with diverse bands and hold his own with both the players and his solo work.  The latest Mark Erelli album, Blindsided, is another collection of his growing and respectable canon, a release of Indie Folk, Roots Rock and laid back Rock’n’Roll.
The title track opens Blindsided with an all too familiar, smitten at first sight, universal tale of the heart with a terrible ending where ‘love can set you free but love can be your prison’. The track is followed with the barroom rocker “Can’t Stand Myself”, a rowdy ‘yeah’ leading into a piano roll, the story dominated by the honest admission of ‘I can’t stand myself when I let you down’. “Her Town Now” has the jangle of a 1980’s Paisley Underground tune and “Strangers Eyes” carries a slight slow-moving R&B groove. “Rose-Colored Rearview” is a tear-jerker that digs up a trunkful of memories, when ‘Springsteen was mainstream, everybody had a hungry-heart’. The piano ballad “Careless” wraps up the record with Mark Erelli painting a descriptive view of heartache, all the way down to the dude sitting in an empty kitchen staring at the clock on the wall, wishing for ‘one more shot’ so he could ‘give it all I got’. Blindsided is ballad heavy with a rocker cut here, a mid-tempo groove there, it is a nod to Mark Erelli’s diversity that the album showcases an ability to cross genre lines. (by Bryant Liggett)
 
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