Melissa Greener - $6

Aboard the rough and tumble gypsy life, Melissa Greener is making it happen as only a girl can who has lived in her van offering songs to those who find her. On the Nashville Broad and the San Francisco Haight, Greeners soul-stiring songs began conception. Now, on The Drag in Austin, her music swells to the territories beyond rootsy, folk-pop and into the realms of ultimate tangibility of the soul. Between her birth town of Detroit and new home of Austin, Texas, Greener has lived and performed throughout the world - the far East, the middle-east, Europe, and North America. While marked with experiences of her solo bicycle ride across Canada and various travels throughout Europe, its American cities like San Francisco and Nashville that make their way into her music in the form of American Folk and Country. Still, Greeners globally attuned voice expresses universal notions of love, departure, regret and hope. As she travels through memories she also travels through melodies. She moves beyond the basics of Americana to capture the essence of American pop with influences like contemporary songstresses Shawn Colvin, Lucinda Williams and Ani Difranco, as well as such greats as Neil Young, Simon & Garfunkel, Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell. Greeners style is one of poetic lyricism matched with honeyed melodies and down-to-earth delivery. Her debut CD, Fall From the Sky, captures the essence of this. Greeners songs are meant for movement, whether through the terrain of lost memories or across the American landscape. Her music translates both the longing and anticipation that comes with the prolonged travel she knows so well.