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Artists:David Mallett
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Life in an out of the way place carries universal import, and people everywhere seem to understand what David Mallett's songs are about. Although they are rooted in place, they speak to the essential things that move us all. If you grow up in a small rural town, as Mallett did, you can't help but learn its stories. He knows about the people who shouldn't have stayed, but did, and those who shouldn't have left, but did.
He knows the factory work, the field work, the memories of summer dances, the loves and losses, and the stunning incidents of courage and despair.
Raised in a musical family, by the age of ten he was touring with his older brother Neil, singing at grange halls and county fairs. In his early twenties he started his solo career, writing his own songs and eventually performing them across the US, Canada and Europe. His songs have received international acclaim, and one of them, "Garden Song", has been translated into several languages and is one of America's most popular folk songs. Other singers who have recorded Mallett's songs include Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Hal David Ketchum, Pete Seeger and even the Muppets.
The source of this well-traveled music is life in a small town in rural Maine, where there still is a main street, and you can still find old barns and tall trees. The songs Mallett writes and sings are filled with passion, evocative imagery, and a sense of the inevitable passage of time. The loss of American towns and rural landscapes is the subject of many of his songs, as are the issues of wilderness preservation and the struggle of the common man. When he is not touring, the place where he makes his songs is in his writing room in an old farmhouse with a view across the field and a tintype of his great-great grandfather on the wall. read more
Over the last 30 years, Dave Mallett has produced a body of work that is as good as folk music gets. On record and in live performance, his evocative baritone voice delivers songs of small town New England life honestly and believably. You know he knows whereof he sings. He has become the embodiment of the lives and land in his beloved home state of Maine.
According to Mallett, "Songs are timeless; songs have to be able to step back from the time that they are in and apply. They have to look down on the earth—it’s like time sequence photography where you show how the earth changes over time. Songs are kinda like that, they’re not locked in one place. And if they are, they’re limited in their abilities." Port Folio Weekly.
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| Song | Album | Length | Played | Overall | You | Tags | Single Request |
| Somewhere In Time | Midnight On The Water | 3:24 | 8 |  9 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Country folk / Folk / Solo vocalist / Acoustic / Band / Romantic | Summer Of My Dreams | Midnight On The Water | 3:29 | 11 | 12 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Folk / Live / Acoustic guitar / Fiddle / Pretty / Nature / Summer / Solo vocalist / Acoustic / Band | Ballad Of The St. Anne's Reel | Midnight On The Water | 3:48 | 9 | 13 votes |
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- Spotlighted: Friday, February 15th 2008
- Artist site clicks: 13
- Songs on WWR: 17
- Total plays: 148
- Total requests: 113
- Total listens: 4267
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