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July 18, 2008 7PM - Meg will be live at a Whole Wheat Radio House Concert! In the spring of 2000, a twenty-two-year-old Hutchinson completed her BA in Creative Writing, quit her job on an organic lettuce farm in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, abandoned her room above a chicken coop, and hit the road. She went on to win a New Folk Award at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas, as well as awards at the Rocky Mountain Folks Fest, the Telluride Troubadour Songwriter's Showcase in Colorado and The Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at Merlefest in North Carolina, all in the course of a year. In April of 2001 Against The Grey was nominated for a Boston Music Award for best "Debut Singer-Songwriter Album" of the year.
Performing Songwriter calls Hutchinson, "...A master of introspective ballads filled with understated yearning and an exquisite sense of metaphor." The twenty-six-year-old describes her style as "lyric-based, folk-pop, with a whole lot of small town idealism and one devastating break up thrown in for good measure." Among her influences she is quick to include poet Mary Oliver along with the likes of David Grey, Patty Griffin, Greg Brown and Shawn Colvin. Her songs are characterized by a weathered but unselfconscious optimism, a love of language and of the natural world. Having grown up in a town of 5,000 people, "just outside the National Historic District," her songs possess all the charm of Lake Wobegon, tempered by a sweet and timeless voice.
The Boston Globe writes, "Meg Hutchinson’s songs have a way of making us believe she’s telling the truth, at least as she sees it. In a brooding sea of inscrutable urban songwriters, her whispery, knowable voice feels like it’s sharing her secrets with us. Set to elegant, free floating melodies that feel both modern and rooted, her lyrics are always seeking, if not actually finding, hope at the end of life’s dark tunnels.”
Hutchinson recently released her new studio album ‘'The Crossing'’ produced by Crit Harmon (Martin Sexton, Susan Werner). She had been carrying Harmon’s business card around for years waiting to get up the nerve to play him a few songs. In 2002 she moved to Boston and finally got her chance. Harmon offered to make a record. They say it took a year to record at his Medford studio, but in reality it took nearly seven years and was well worth the wait.
The title track from The Crossing is a song about a bridge in Hutchinson’s hometown that was mistakenly built higher than the surrounding road. Hutchinson says, “I was working on getting over some difficult things in my life during those months. There was this small sign 'pavement ends,' and then you’d hit the bridge and be airborne. The songs on this album grew out of this work of getting beyond.”
Meg has recently won awards at the Mountain Stage New Song Festival and in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition. She continues to tour in support of "The Crossing" in the Northeast U.S., the U.K. and Ireland.
-- From the artist's MySpace page.
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- Spotlighted: Tuesday, August 3rd 2004
- Artist site clicks: 207
- Songs on WWR: 22
- Total plays: 390
- Total requests: 264
- Total listens: 9966
- CDBaby website clicks: 22
- CDBaby referrals: 2
- CDBaby sales: The Crossing (Sold 2 copies)
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