Mike Stevens is a songwriter that brings the many places he has called home to bear in this recording. Beginning in El Paso, coming to Springfield, Missouri via New York City and now residing in Chicago, Mike has created sounds on this CD that are as diverse as their inspiration. He has spent two years as the guitarist and one of the songwriter/singers for Springfield's Honky Tonk Chateau, but is now stepping out on his own. MayApple is happy to release the first CD of his inspired writing, playing and singing. Mike recorded and played all of this music at the four-track junkman makeshift art and recording studio that he called his home on Division Street in Springfield, then collaborated with co-producer Mark Bilyeu to mix it all down. The result could be described as Lo-Fi indie roots singer-songwriter music, a classification as unique as the music itself. Mike’s songs are an extension of his worldliness, loneliness, drunkenness, and his lust-affair with life itself. It is vital and now, so check it out.
"Mike licked the bottom of worn shag rug to uncover the wondrous elegance of classic American songwriting. There is no artifice, only glory." - Mark De Gli Antoni of Soul Coughing
“Absolutely love the Mike Stevens record” – William Higgins, Black Dog Records
“I obsessively love Mike’s disk!” – Stephanie Dosen, Milwaukee singer-songwriter
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