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Mick Sterling

Well if you want to find out me personally, it's all in the book, "The Long Ride Home: A Life in the Minnesota Music Scene", so I don't want to repeat myself too much. I've seen too many boring artist bios. Instead, I asked Kevin Bowe, the producer of my latest release BETWEEN SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING, and my band mate in the Rolling Blunder Revue to write a few words. Enjoy.

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Mick Sterling - Blessed Songs for Christmastime
Mick Sterling - BLESSED - Songs For Christmas Time
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Mick Sterling has been a fixture on the Twin Cities music scene for over two decades. Known primarily 17 years for his 10 piece Soul and R&B band MICK STERLING AND THE STUD BROTHERS from 1989-2005, Sterling produced multiple CD and performed hundreds of shows in the region. After 2005, Sterling ended the band and began his own musical statements with his solo record BETWEEN SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING. His latest venture is BLESSED - Songs for Christmas Time, on the New Folk Records Label, is a continuation of Sterling's musical journey and his ongoing effort to break stereotype and take the people familiar with Sterling in a new direction.

BLESSED is filled with refreshing interpretations of some Christmas classics such as AVE MARIA, HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS, I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE and many others. What makes this effort stand out from other Christmas releases is that this CD is not all Christmas songs. Featuring a cover of Gene Autry's old cowboy classic HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY THAT I LOVE YOU fit's right in the Christmas theme. The other one....you'll have to find out for yourself! But I know you'll dig it!

The instrumentation is sparse and lovely. Two acoustic guitars, fiddle and light percussion are all that adorn these songs, along with Sterling 's soulful take on vocals. Recorded basically live in the studio, the songs have a very raw and tender feeling to them. Many of the treatments of these songs, such as an acoustic guitar and vocal take on AVE MARIA and an added fiddle on O HOLY NIGHT are breathtakingly beautiful treatments of these traditional songs. While the treatments are original, it does not stray too far off the songs that mean a lot to everyone. It's just nice to hear them in a different way.

Intimate and fresh and surprisingly soulful, BLESSED - Songs for Christmas Time features amazing musicianship and will fit right in with all of your favorite holiday releases for years to come
Mick Sterling - Between Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Mick Sterling - Between Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
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  1. Between Saturday Night and Sunday Morning    [lyrics]
  2. Its Been A Long Time(Since I Loved My Woman Like That)    [lyrics]
  3. You Don’t Know What Dirty Is    [lyrics]
  4. Biblical Sense    [lyrics]
  5. Heavy Lifting    [lyrics]
  6. Man Pants    [lyrics]
  7. Who Died and Made You King    [lyrics]
  8. Lucky Man    [lyrics]
  9. Maggies Rosary    [lyrics]
  10. Avalon    [lyrics]
  11. Divine    [lyrics]
  12. Follow
  13. Blues is my Business    [lyrics]
  14. Someone’s Waiting For Me At Home    [lyrics]
  15. Instead of Making Love    [lyrics]
Between Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Reviews:

Without mentioning any names let's just say I've produced other records that were about as fun as getting a boil implant. This one was easy; just might spoil me for working with other less talented and more "difficult" artists. One thing that strikes me about working with Mick is that he really undervalues himself as a Mick Sterling - One Sheet songwriter. So many artists I've worked with think they're great songwriters because they can play the guitar (wrong) sing (wrong) or dance and look cute (wrong, wrong). Writing is a very strange thing and good writing.... well it's like the Supreme Court's definition of pornography.... "I can't describe it to you but I know it when I see it" and I rarely see it like I do in Mick. The song "You Don't Know What Dirty Is" came out of an onstage crack at a Blunders gig where I was talking about my house needing cleaning. Mick responded with the instant song title and all we had to do was come up with the character behind it (Father Jack Kerouac). He also came up with the best title on the album "Who Died And Made You King" which extends an eloquent middle finger to those recent converts who zealously believe in, and confuse themselves with the G-man. "Heavy Lifting" was another one of Mick's ideas that was so cool it wrote itself. I mean how could you possibly write a shitty song with that title? The crowning touch was when he showed up and sang 6 of these lead vocals IN ONE DAY!!!!!!!!! ONE DAY!!!!!!!! I've been at this a long time and never seen a display like that. This was after he got up at 6 in the morning! Then the bastard trots off and does 3 sets in a bar that night! The musicians on the album all played their hearts out, every single one. Donnie LaMarca's piano on "Maggie's Rosary", Billy's drums throughout, Andy Dee and Paul Mayasich blasting out the slide guitars, Stephen Morgan's guitar nastiness on "Long Time", and check out Cynthia Johnson and George Pettus on the gospel vocals! That was one of the funniest things to do for this record. Anyway, I think heathens as well as the righteous will dig it, and if my experience tells me anything, both parties will assume we were speaking only to them.

Kevin Bowe

kbowe@mn.rr.com www.kevinbowe.com