Press
Press
"Melissa Greener is one of those rare artists who appear on the scene with all their talents maturely developed. Blessed with a glorious, outsized, and utterly distinctive voice, Greener is an accomplished guitarist and an arresting songwriter. The music is strikingly original and impressively varied, featuring strong, catchy melodies in strange and brooding voicings. Melissa Greener is a pro."
- Celine Keating, Acoustic Guitar Magazine - USA
"Be awake and alert, expend the time, and you'll grasp the Technicolor grandeur contained within Greener's DWELLING. Via tightly edited lyrics Greener succeeds in painting superb portraits of the human condition - hers and ours."
- Arthur Wood, Maverick Music Magazine - UK
"Dwelling is a beautifully symmetric work, that makes writing songs look like painting. Words for Greener are pigments. This demure album contains much beauty, which she delivers with vicarious emotion and conviction. It is a spirited album with basic instrumentation and sparse as it may seem, knows how to give the just ambience. A very beautiful cd!"
- Rein van den Berg, Alt Country Forum - Netherlands
"There is so much to admire on Greener's sophomore album Dwelling; the gorgeous, intimate voice; the stunning, evocative lyrics; the subtle ability to interpret other's songs; her sensational flat-picking; the masterful production by John Jennings... Given all this, Greener should, by rights, be as homely as a mud fence and have zero stage presence, but no, she got dealt high cards in both those departments too. She really is the total package."
- John Conquest, 3rd Coast Music Magazine - Austin, Texas
"Melissa Greener - Heiress to modern folk-rock territory blazed by Ani, Dar and Lucy, Enveloping the listener with a warm confident voice and lyrical intrigue. The soul of a poet, the rhythm of a rocker!"
- Michael Terry, Uncle Calvin's Coffeehouse - Dallas, Texas
"It Gets Harder To Leave Texas Every Time is Melissa's song now. I feel like John Prine listening to Bonnie Raitt sing Angel From Montgomery."
- Jonathan Byrd, singer-songwriter
"Melissa could warm up the North Pole with her songs... OUTSTANDING!"
- Ron Goad, Songwriter's Association of Washington
"I can't even explain what it felt like to listen to her. Her song had me in tears... her way of putting words together... her voice... all of it... it took me back in time. It reminded me of how I felt the first time I heard Joni Mitchell perform. I knew, listening to Melissa, that I was standing in the presence of greatness."
- Arlene Boumel, Broward Folk Club President
"After seeing Melissa Greener I've been playing Fall From The Sky repeatedly. I have also just picked up Joni Mitchell's first album, Songs To A Seagull. I've got to tell you, I like Melissa's debut better. I am not saying Melissa Greener is better than Joni Mitchell, I am saying check her out."
- Blue Plate Special, WDVX, - Knoxville, TN
"I love Melissa Greener. She writes and sings with loads of emotion, authority and skill. There are a great many things to recommend her Cd, but "Long Road Down" alone is worth the price of admission. She is really something."
- John Jennings
"In all the years Chicago House has been closed, Melissa Greener is the first person to make me wish that I still had a venue, so that I could have a personal hand in the success that she will no doubt soon enjoy. Truly a 'musician's musician', she effortlessly cast off licks others would kill to be able to finger their way through. I really 'fell' for her as I discovered the outstanding singer-songwriter that she is. Possessing an outstanding stage presence, a true beauty (both inside and out), she is a natural and a consumate professional when gracing the stage."
- Peg Miller, Chicago House co-founder - Austin, Texas
"Melissa has the package. Lovely melodies, a beautiful voice and a stunning stage presence. But, what tops the cake are her excellent guitar skills. She creates memorable arrangements that definitely rise above the crowd."
- Roger Allen, KGSR - Austin, Texas
