"Cleaves tells gorgeously compact stories in a voice packed with Texas
trail dust." -- Entertainment Weekly
"****" --
Michael Corcoran, Austin360.com
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Slaid
Cleaves. Grew up in Maine. Lives in Texas. Writes
songs. Makes records.
Travels around. Tries to be good.
January 2009:
Happy New Year to all!
2009 promises to be a busy and exciting year here at slaid.com as Slaid and Karen prepare for the spring release of his next CD, titled "Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away." Lots
of shows are in the works including tours in Canada, Colorado, New
Mexico, New York and many more. All confirmed shows for 2009 can
be found on the tour page.
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the gang when they come to your town . . .
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Slaid Cleaves is known as a "songwriter's songwriter," which is
usually a polite way of saying "he can't sing." But there's no need for
decorum with the Maine-born, Texas-based troubadour: For all of his
command of song craft, Cleaves would still be working as a
pharmaceutical guinea pig were it not for his warm, gently burred
tenor. He phrases like a grifter trying to croon his low-down past away
— and writes like he knows he never will. When his new folkie peers see
angels over every other barista's shoulder, Cleaves sees through
sentiment. "I've been chasing grace but grace ain't so easily found,"
he sings on "One Good Year," just one of many subtle, momentary stays
against the dark side of his heart. That heart doesn't bleed easily —
but when it does, it bleeds true.
--- Roy Kasten, River Front Times, St Louis, May 14, 2008:
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