David Mallett December 12, 2009

The cool breezes of Maine's northlands have flowed through the songs of David Mallett for more than four decades. Raised in a musical family, by the age of ten he was touring with his older brother Neil, singing at grange halls and county fairs. In his early twenties he started his solo career, writing his own songs and eventually performing them across the US, Canada and Europe. In 2003, the readers of Folkwax honored Mallett by voting him Artist of the Year, and his album Artist in Me Album of the Year. In addition to being featured on his eleven solo albums, Mallett's pen has provided material for an eclectic list of artists that includes Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Emmylou Harris, Kathy Mattea, John Denver and the Muppets. His tune "The Garden Song" has been recorded more than one hundred and fifty times. After eleven albums of purely original tunes, Mallett has taken a different approach with his latest effort, The Fable True. Based on a book by naturalist/author Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), The Maine Woods, the album features Thoreau's words set to new melodies composed by Mallett. Alternating between straight folk songs and countrified acoustic numbers, he sings songs of passion, loss, and struggle in a crisp friendly voice that will appeal to a wide audience of country and folk aficionados.

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