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Marianne
Keith
Celestial Singer &
Multi-Talented Performer,
Marianne Keith releases her
new album ‘CATHARTIC’, the
highly anticipated follow up
to her 2007 debut ‘Beautiful
Distraction’
on Unison Music Records.
Since releasing her first
album, the singer—who likes
to describe her vibe as
“folk/pop/rock”––has shown
her wide ranging appeal on
tours with established and
upcoming artists in a wide
range of genres, including
blues/rocker Joe Bonamassa,
alt-rockers Better Than
Ezra, singer/songwriters Ari
Hest and Julian Velard and
folk/pop artist Brett Dennen.
Recently on a solo acoustic
tour with Squeeze lead
singer Glenn Tilbrook,
Marianne has also toured
with Noah Sugarman, another
artist on Unison. The label,
which is part of a full
scale organization that
includes a management and
production company, was
launched by industry
veterans Bruce Witkin and
Ryan Dorn, who have produced
both of Marianne’s albums.
While Beautiful
Distraction established
Marianne’s credentials as a
strong, emotionally raw and
honest songwriter,
Cathartic challenges her
generally sunny point of
view as she digs deep into
the pain and heartache of a
life changing, faith shaking
relationship. The intense
life experience she draws
from transforms her from
doe-eyed teen into a young
adult woman who, emerging
from her loss of innocence,
truly comes of age as a
composer.
“I went
from thinking that people are generally good,” she says, “that people
have good hearts and come from a good place to realizing that’s not
necessarily true. I saw an ugly side of the world. I don’t know if
that crisis measures up to some of the ones that others have been
through, but I’ll never be quite the same. People think the title song
is a metaphor about tearing out and burning a page from my diary, but I
actually did that. It was a chapter I really wanted to forget.
Heartbreak can affect your whole worldview. Where you might once have
been carefree, now there’s this sense of looking over your shoulder. If
younger listeners don’t know what the word cathartic means, they will
after they listen to that song and the whole album.”
True to her
nature as a creative and career risk taker, Marianne defies some
unspoken rules of album making with the new project. The album has 15
songs which, instead of being tracked strategically to mix up, down and
mid-tempo songs, combine to tell her story in chronological order,
cataloging this time in her life. Listeners are invited experience the
entire cycle of emotions through her poetic, intelligent, yet accessible
lyrics. Another unique element of Cathartic’s development was the fact
that the super-prolific songwriter actually wrote close to 100 songs for
the project; Witkin and Dorn whittled them down to a final list to
choose from by picking the ones whose lyrics would best tell the story.
“It’s hard to pick a single
aspect of my career that I love
the most,” Marianne says. “I
really enjoy the recording
process, developing a simple
idea I started with in my
bedroom into a full production.
It’s also so great to be out
there performing, so much so
that when I’m home for too long,
I get restless. It’s cool when
people look at me and wonder how
I can have such a big voice for
such a little girl. I just tell
them that this is what I’m made
to do, and I’m grateful to have
the opportunity to sing for
them.”
Big Blend Radio
- Marianne Keith was a featured guest on Champagne Sundays radio show on
February 21, 2010. To meet the rest of the guests and listen to the
entire show, please click
here. To listen to Marianne's interview, please double click on the
Play Button below.
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