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Melissa Ferrick

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mardi 14 mars 2006 [n° 1136]


“Born in 1970, Ferrick spent her formative years in an Ipswich, Massachusetts (fr) house dating back to 1650. Her father was a public school teacher and “hidden poet” while her mother worked in retail and ran a home day-care center to help make ends meet. Mr. Ferrick also managed several free-jazz bands on the side, and often brought his 5-year-old daughter to clubs on Boston’s North Shore to watch them play.

She began violin lessons around the same point, after proclaiming to her dad at age 4 that she’d wanted to play the instrument since before she was born. (“Which was weird, because I don’t think I’d ever seen one at that point,” she laughs.) By elementary school and junior high, she was learning trumpet and bass.

Twelve years of classical training (including 2 each at Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music) gave Melissa ample background in music theory, but it wasn’t until she picked up a guitar that she truly found her own voice.

“I feel like we found each other,” she says of her favorite instrument, which she taught herself to play. “I’m constantly discovering different ways I can make sounds come out of it, ways I can make an acoustic guitar not sound like an acoustic guitar.”

by Melissa Ferrick
70 People at 7000 feet © 2003 Right On Records


Freedom

Date de parution

de l’album : 1999

Melissa Ferrick by Alex Steininger

(What Are Records?)

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Drive

(…)

Your mouth waters
stretched out on my bed
your fingers are trembling
and your heart is heavy and red
and your head is bent back
and your back is arched
and my hand is under there
holding you up

Melissa Ferrick

Drive 1

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The official Melissa Ferrick site : www.melissaferrick.com

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An Interview with Melissa Ferrick From Kathy Belge


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