Mercy Creek
- Sunday June 15, 2008 3:45 Pm Join us at the Alexandria Red Cross Waterfront Festival on Sunday June 15 where Mercy Creek will be opening for Little Feat. 6/15/08 3:45 Pm.
- The recording process for our 5th album is completed. We will keep you posted on the progress of mixing, mastering, and the release date. You can hear the new tunes live at shows. Tracks include "Green Beans", "Cost of Living", "Looking for a Reason", "Good Enough", "Baby It's not Your Fault", "What about Us", Walk on Water", "Lost", "Fade Away", "Hold On", and "Waited Too Long". A true reflection of the band, this album features Cheryl and Jim performing all of the tracks and overdubing. There were no studio musicians used in the recordings. We're excited and look forward to bringing another album to life.
- Over 380,000 plays of "Summer" from Play Network in retail outlets including Eddie Bauer.
- Check out the Mercy Creek myspace page and be a friend of the band.
www.myspace.com/mercycreek
- Thanks to Zafeer for shooting and making a live Mercy Creek video of "West of Bluefield" check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?y=kDSF_i9dWzo
- 2 Mercy Creek CDs are currently available! Order Albums (name of the record is mercy creek & Bonfire of Vanities currently sold out)
- New Mercy Creek photos now through out the web site...many thanks to Skip Rowland and Leslie Scotti for their camera work
* Bonfire of Vanities, Mercy Creek's 4th album, hit position 50 on the FMQB Chart week of 4/6/05. The album was added on 135 AAA and College radio stations from Alaska to St. Thomas Virgin Islands and charted on FMQB for 18 weeks.
* The Washington Post Fairfax Extra December 22, 2005 ......"Mercy Creek can perform folk, harder rock, calypso groove, swinging alt-country, and bluesy gospel. The band makes a mighty noise for just 2 players. After six years of extensive touring, the duo has been described as "the White Stripes of Americana." Jack and Meg White, watch you back." M. Meyer
* The Washington Examiner Sept 8, 2005 "Virginia duo Mercy Creek plays "aggressive folk rock", and if that is the chosen label, I commend them, because I wouldn't be so willing to classify. I agree in theory, but with all they offer, I think Mercy Creek can also be called liars by omission.....Nystrom is an undeniable star, with a strong expressive voice that swoops around pop choruses and haunts the verses in between, like a burnished and coppery Beth Orton....
* Singer & Musician Magazine August 2005 "...Mercy Creek, the two-piece group (singer/guitarist Cheryl Nystrom and drummer Jim Ball) is one of the leaders of an aggressive folk rock movement and have been coined "The White Stripes of Americana." Their sound blends modern folk with pop, rock, blues and even bluegrass. Nystrom's vocals are raw, uninhibited, intense and sensual."
Download songs from 4 Mercy Creek albums at popular sites such as I-Tunes.
(2/16/04 Cincinnati Beat) "grounded Earth Pop that artists like Damien Rice, Sixpence None the Richer, and Over the Rhine have used to cultivate huge cult followings" Mike Breen "If there is such a thing as perfect folk-rock music, then Mercy Creek comes as close as possible to creating it. Their songs are authentically rootsy without losing that ever-elusive mainstream appeal." Jim Nelson, A Taste Of Triple A January 2005.
804-438-5060, mercycrk@aol.com, www.mercycreek.com