Mary Fahl in Echoes Podcast

Mary Fahl Talks of Love, Werewolves and Grace Slick in Echoes Podcast

Mary Fahl doesn’t sound like any other modern singer. You have to go back to vocalists like Sandy Denny of Fairport Convention and Grace Slick of The Jefferson Airplane to find a reference point for a sound which is more like warrior angels than heavenly angels. She used to sing with October Project and that’s how many people know her, including author Anne Rice. She loved the band so much that she actually put them in her book, The Wolves of Midwinter, as source music.  Mary Fahl has just released her third solo album, Love and Gravity and it tackles themes you might expect from a woman who isn’t a teenager anymore.   It also includes a song written for the audio book of Anne Rice’s The Wolves of Midwinter.  Mary Fahl tells the story behind her werewolf song and about her musical influences from the 60s in Echoes Podcast.

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Mary Fahl’s Power Singing and Wolf Songs

Hear Mary Fahl Talk About Influences from the 60s,  October Project and Werewolf songs tonight on Echoes

Mary Fahl on Echoes

Mary Fahl doesn’t sound like any other modern singer. You have to go back to vocalists like Sandy Denny and Grace Slick to find a reference point for a sound which is more like warrior angels than heavenly angels. She used to sing with October Project and that’s how many people know her, including author Anne Rice. She loved the band so much that she actually put them in her book, The Wolves of Midwinter as source music.  Mary Fahl has just released her third solo album, Love and Gravity and it tackles themes you might expect from a woman who isn’t a teenager anymore.   It also includes a song written for the audio book of Anne Rice’s The Wolves of Midwinter.  Mary Fahl tells the story behind her werewolf song and about her musical influences from the 60s tonight on Echoes.

John Diliberto (((echoes)))

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Mary Fahl Live on Echoes Tonight

Mary Fahl Live on Echoes

One of the most distinctive voices in modern music has been singer Mary Fahl.  While we love the “ethereal girls” on Echoes, Mary Fahl is powerhouse singer whose roots are more Grace Slick and Sandy Denny than Elizabeth Fraser and Suzanne Vega.  She came to renown fronting October Project back in the 90s. But when that group broke up, Fahl started writing her own music. And in case you thought she was another female singer-songwriter, she also recorded an explosive cover album of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon from front to back.  Now she has a new CD of original music, Love and Gravity that includes a song written for the audio book of Anne Rice’s The Wolves of Midwinter.  She’s actually a touchstone in the book when one of the characters remembers listening to October Project when he was younger.  With a full electric band, she comes into the Echoes Living Room and unleashes her vocal power live playing songs from Pink Floyd, October Project and her new CD, Love and Gravity.  Hear it tonight on Echoes.

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The Art of the Cover Tune – Echoes Undercover – Weds, May 29th

On the next Echoes we go Undercover.  It’s an entire show of cover tunes from Pink Floyd to Led Zeppelin, King Crimson  to New Order and more.   Songs you know by artists who aren’t known for playing them.

The best cover tunes reinvent a song and my standard for that will always be Jimi Hendrix’s take on Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower.”  He took Dylan’s understated song with its biblical implications and turned it into a storm from the heavens.  Even Dylan began playing it with Hendrix’s arrangement (sans raging guitar) afterwards.

I don’t know if anything we’ll hear tonight on Echoes reaches those heights, but I think several songs see some serious reinvention, like Pat Metheny’s meditation on Simon & Garfunkel’s “Sound of Silence,” Geigertek’s luxurious interpretation of John Foxx’s “Underpass” and George Winston’s highly underrated interpretation of The Doors.

One interesting trend is whole album covers.  I think this began in the mid-nineties when Blue Note Records launched their “Cover Series” in which one artist covered an entire album by another artist like Charlie Hunter’s take on Bob Marley’s Natty Dread.   It took a while to grab hold, but the new millennium has seen several albums covered from beginning to end.  Mary Fahl re-imagined  all of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon as did The Flaming Lips.  Japancakes recorded a gorgeous and raging version of My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless with cello and pedal steel guitar in the lead rolls and Icebreaker made an album from their live performance of Brian Eno’s Apollo, an album that was a studio creation, never intended for live performance.

We’ll hear selections from some of them and more as we get undercover tonight on Echoes.

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