Roots singer/songwriter Mark Lennon blindsides Los Angeles with his third album Down the Mountain. Sun drenched city streets set the stage for songs of lost love, reflection, family, and longing for the South.
“I grew up on hippie music and bluegrass, so I like when music has great lyrics but also jams out,” says Lennon, who still considers North Carolina his home. “I am proud of our musical upbringing. We lived in a little speck-on-a-map town, but always had some amazing bands passing through.”
A Los Angeles transplant, Lennon has penned his way around Southern California for the past seven years, creating a style entirely his own. He combines personal lyrics and anthemic themes with his love for folk, bluegrass, classic country, and rock and roll.
Having formed over the past few years, the Mark Lennon Band brings together a diverse collection of musicians from a variety of backgrounds, creating an authentic sound called Down the Mountain.
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| POSTED BY: momof5pacs | POSTED ON: 10 Nov 2009 07:26 PM | ||
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Mark Lennon’s third CD, “Down the Mountain,” finds the terrific LA-based singer-songwriter continuing his musical journey down that Americana trail blazed by the likes of legends such as Ryan Adams, Gene Clark, and Gram Parsons. And like those notable forerunners, Lennon’s ease and naturalness with the country-tinged rock style is as pure as it is noteworthy. With vocal inflections that sound clear-as-mountain-stream authentic, Lennon’s songs of love’s travails and the struggle to find meaning in mixed-up times, really strike home on tunes such as “What I Could Be With You,” “Broken,” and the wonderful “My Hometown,” a track that recalls American Beauty-era Grateful Dead. As accessible and tuneful as all the songs are, though, Lennon’s duet with Simone Stevens on “Wildside” has a fragile beauty that goes beyond questions of style or genre, invoking instead the notion that great music knows no such boundaries. With a multi-textured Americana / Country Rock ensemble providing the perfect backdrop for “Down the Mountain,” Mark Lennon’s latest CD is a triumph of style and delivery. -Rice B. and the RadioIndy.com Reviewer Team |
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| POSTED BY: momof5pacs | POSTED ON: 01 Jul 2009 06:34 PM | ||
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Mark Lennon’s third CD, “Down the Mountain,” finds the terrific LA-based singer-songwriter continuing his musical journey down that Americana trail blazed by the likes of legends such as Ryan Adams, Gene Clark, and Gram Parsons. And like those notable forerunners, Lennon’s ease and naturalness with the country-tinged rock style is as pure as it is noteworthy. With vocal inflections that sound clear-as-mountain-stream authentic, Lennon’s songs of love’s travails and the struggle to find meaning in mixed-up times, really strike home on tunes such as “What I Could Be With You,” “Broken,” and the wonderful “My Hometown,” a track that recalls American Beauty-era Grateful Dead. As accessible and tuneful as all the songs are, though, Lennon’s duet with Simone Stevens on “Wildside” has a fragile beauty that goes beyond questions of style or genre, invoking instead the notion that great music knows no such boundaries. With a multi-textured Americana / Country Rock ensemble providing the perfect backdrop for “Down the Mountain,” Mark Lennon’s latest CD is a triumph of style and delivery.
-Rice B. and the RadioIndy.com Reviewer Team |
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| POSTED BY: radioindy | POSTED ON: 10 Jun 2009 05:40 PM | ||
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MARK LENNON: Down the Mountain Folk rock, singer/songwriter, jam country Recommended if you like Grateful Dead, Gram Parsons, Ryan Adams. CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99 |
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