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Martha’s Trouble to release new album this Fall
By: ModernRock.com
July 14th 2004 1:24pm
Canadian music duo Martha’s Trouble (Jen and Rob Slocumb) are set to release
their fifth full-length album, Forget October, on October 5th. Hitting
the streets on their own Aisling Records Label, the album will get
nationwide United States distribution via Oarfin. Forget October is
already getting early radio attention from XM Satellite Radio’s XM Café
channel, where the twosome is ranked #3 on the airplay charts this week.
“This disc represents a departure for us,” says lead vocalist Jen Slocumb.
“We’ve taken some chances artistically, and these songs reflect our creative
growth.” That growth comes as a result of some exciting career highlights
to-date, including: having their song, “Some Peace Tonight,” chosen for a
made-for-TV-movie, “It Must Be Love,” starring Ted Danson and Mary
Steenbergen; having their album “Sleeping Dogs” selected as a Top 12 DIY in
Performing Songwriter Magazine in December 2002; having their song “Hold Me
Close” being nominated for “Best Americana Song” in the 2002 Just Plain
Folks Awards.
The married pair split their time and their touring between the U.S. and
Canada, and plan to continue their regularly-heavy touring schedule in
support of Forget October. As the Record-Eagle in Traverse City, MI said
of them, “It’s commonplace to refer to folk artists as modern-day
troubadours, traveling from town to town with their songs like the wandering
musicians of old. But Rob and Jen Slocumb actually live that rootless
wandering existence.” The fact that they list two current homebases on
their press materials (Ancaster, Ontario and Opelika, Alabama) certainly
supports that mentality.
Forget October, which was executive produced by Jerry York and produced by
Chris Rosser, showcases the sparkling beauty of Jen Slocumb’s voice. The
press has called her singing “haunting, mesmerizing, mystical, seductive,
entrancing,” and “spine-tingling… rich with experience, conviction and
wonder.” They’ve compared her to the likes of Natalie Merchant and Aimee
Mann, and their music overall has gotten nods in the direction of the Cowboy
Junkies.
Martha’s Trouble can be found online at:
www.marthastrouble.com
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