Mercy Creek
- "Another Place to Start" gets fantaitic beginning at radio with 10 of 10 songs receiving airplay!
- Mercy Creek's new album now available at shows and on-line! Click here to order the new CD "Another Place to Start" on-line now! Order Albums
- "Another Place to Start" radio play. Thanks to WHRV 89.5 FM Norfolk, Va. , WCVE 88.9 FM Richmond, Va. , WRXL 102.1 FM "The X" Richmond, Va, WCOM 103.5 FM Chapel Hill, NC, and WNKU 89.7 FM, Highland Heights, Ky for all the air play on our new album. Aired tracks include every track on the disk! "Green Beans", "Walk on Water", "Lost", "Good Enough", "Cost of Living", "What About Us", "Hold On", "Fade Away", "Waited Too Long", and "Baby It's not Your Fault". Thank you!
- Our new album "Another Place to Start" is available at shows, selected retail, and on this web site! Tracks include "Green Beans", "Cost of Living", "Good Enough", "Baby It's not Your Fault", "What about Us", Walk on Water", "Lost", "Fade Away", "Hold On", and "Waited Too Long". The disk was recorded at White Arc Studios in Bloomington, IN with Paul MKS Mahern. Click here for detailed retail imformation and to order on line. Order Albums
- Still Playing! More plays of "Summer" from Play Network in retail outlets including Eddie Bauer during 2008! Retail spins have now exceeded over 1 million plays!
- Be our myspace friend! Check out the Mercy Creek myspace page and be a friend of the band.
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- Live Mercy Creek video - "West of Bluefield" check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?y=kDSF_i9dWzo
- 4 Mercy Creek CDs are currently available on line! The new CD "Another Place to Start" is on-line now! Order Albums ("Name of the Record", "Dirty Water", "Storm Has Blown Over" "Another Place to Start" currently available on-line. "Bonfire of Vanities" currently sold out)
* 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 blues 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."
(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