Slaid Cleaves
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Biography
[Edit]The music of Austin-based singer/songwriter and guitarist Slaid Cleaves is rooted in country and traditional folk songs, but it is unusual enough to have held interest in a sea of singer/songwriters across the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. While he released a handful of recordings during the early '90s, he gained significant notice with No Angel Knows, which was released on Rounder's Philo subsidiary in 1997. Joined by former Lucinda Williams guitarist Gurf Morlix, Cleaves combined his passion for folk songs, blues, and traditional country music into an amalgamation of styles known as Americana. Not surprisingly, the album rode high into the charts at Americana-formatted radio stations around the U.S. and Canada in 1997. The release set the tone for the rest of his career.
Prior to entering the music industry, Cleaves majored in English and philosophy at Tufts University in his native New England, and began playing music in garage rock bands while still in high school. While in college, he learned guitar, and later spent a summer in Ireland. He began busking on the streets in Cork, and that was the turning point when he decided to become a folksinger. At Tufts, he developed his guitar skills and studied the music of Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springsteen. He recalled that he had listened to the music of Guthrie, Carl Perkins, and Hank Williams as a child, so he went back into his parents' attic to discover a treasure trove of albums.
After many years in Portland, Maine, he sought new mountains to climb, and found some of them after moving to Austin, Texas, in 1992. Despite the echelon of great singer/songwriters like Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Lucinda Williams, Robert Earl Keen, Guy Clark, and Joe Ely all centered around the Austin scene, Cleaves was able to make a name for himself there. In 1995, he recorded an independent album for Rock Bottom Records entitled Life's Other Side. In 1996, he began his collaboration with Morlix, who liked Cleaves' demo tape and ended up serving as producer for 1997's No Angel Knows.
During the following decade, Cleaves released Broke Down (2000) and Wishbones (2004) prior to switching to Rounder proper for Unsung (2006). After signing with Jimmy LaFave and Kelcy Warren's Music Road label, he issued Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away (2009, featuring liner notes from fan Stephen King), the two-disc Sorrow & Smoke: Live at the Horseshoe Lounge (2011), and Still Fighting the War (2013). The title song of the latter album was inspired by Craig F. Walker's Pulitzer-winning photo essay regarding a soldier's postwar civilian life.
Title: Holiday Sampler - EP
Artist: Slaid Cleaves
Genre: Traditional Pop Music, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Without Her / Every Sunrise (Songwriting Demo) - Single
Artist: Slaid Cleaves
Genre: Folk Rock, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Together Through The Dark
Artist: Slaid Cleaves
Genre: World Music, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: Holiday Sampler
Artist: Slaid Cleaves
Genre: Rock, Traditional Pop Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: No Angel Knows
Artist: Slaid Cleaves
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Wishbones
Artist: Slaid Cleaves
Genre: Country, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Sorrow & Smoke (Live At the Horseshoe Lounge)
Artist: Slaid Cleaves
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
Artist: Slaid Cleaves
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Still Fighting the War
Artist: Slaid Cleaves
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Collections
Title: Even More Songs of Route 66: From Here to There
Genre: Country
Title: Brewed In Texas
Genre: Country
Title: Brewed In Texas, Vol. 3
Genre: Country
Title: Freight Train Boogie 2
Genre: Country
Title: The Best Of Travelin' Texas
Genre: Country
Title: Indie 69 July 2013 (CD2)
Genre: Indie
Title: Highway Prayer: A Tribute To Adam Carroll
Genre: World Music, Folk
Title: The Songs Of Townes Van Zandt (CD1)
Genre: World Music, Acoustic, Folk
Title: Hoodoo Dark Blues (CD1)
Title: Free And Romantic Country 2023 (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: The Legend Of The Old West (CD2)
Genre: World Music, Country, Folk
Title: Country: Folk Songs USA (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: Country Music For The Soul And Heart (CD1)
Genre: World Music, Country, Folk
Featuring albums
Title: Collaborations
Artist: Strings Attached
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, Songwriter/Lyricist, Psychedelic
Title: Dark River: Songs Of The Civil War Era
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country
Title: Ribbon of Highway
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Country, Alternative Country, Folk
Title: Even More Songs Of Route 66: From Here To There
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Country, Alternative Country
Title: Dreamer: A Tribute to Kent Finlay
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Highway Prayer: A Tribute to Adam Carroll
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Pop, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: When the Wind Blows - The Songs of Townes Van Zandt
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Songwriter/Lyricist